{"id":1757,"date":"2006-04-17T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging has been a constant in my life for the last 5.5 years.  Nearly every day.  The longest I probably went without blogging was 5 days when I was in China (the trip was actually 10 days, but I found an internet cafe).  The audience has completely changed over the years from people I knew offline to people I knew online back to people I knew offline.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, I don\\&#8217;t know why exactly I blog.  I have so many responses to that question: (1) I have a need to be heard.  (2) I want to document my life for my memoirs.  (3) Because I love the online community and how blogging brings so much from it.  (4) I love to write.  (5) Stress relief.<\/p>\n<p>Times have changed though.  I am so plugged into this world.  I don\\&#8217;t like it, but at the same time, I am unwilling to let go.  I know there\\&#8217;s way too much of myself online because of this blog.  Yet it\\&#8217;s a place that I can rely on where my words are printed out in text and ideas are formed.  But it\\&#8217;s a place of memories of heartbreak and success.  Then those silly, stupid moments.  <\/p>\n<p>When is it time to move on?  But I know I can\\&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging has been a constant in my life for the last 5.5 years. Nearly every day. The longest I probably went without blogging was 5 days when I was in China (the trip was actually 10 days, but I found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}