{"id":5614,"date":"2017-01-26T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:15:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T06:15:32","slug":"fifteen-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5614","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen years ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog.  <\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, I can&#8217;t remember a life without it.  To have this place where it captures my memories, my thoughts, and my desires.  Technically, it was hosted elsewhere at a url formerly know as positively.chargedparticle.com and in a moment of emotional retaliation about 14 years ago, I moved it to this url.<\/p>\n<p>But the concept of this blog started first at scribble.nu way back in 2000.  There, I captured everything that was going on.  Interestingly, I didn&#8217;t believe in diaries for most of my childhood, especially as a teenager.  It was for those lovelorn girls who carried around pens with dainty pink feathers of puffs who wrote glittery pink sparkle fluff.  I certainly would not do that.<\/p>\n<p>But as a suppressed writer, I was seduced by the words that came out of my fingers through the keyboard.  I had barely written for years, sporadically in the purple diary that an aunt gifted to me as a teenager.  But with the advent of the boom of online journaling that I could share with others, I found myself writing and writing.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there were the growing pains\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI realized that I couldn&#8217;t write about people (negatively) nor could I write about emotional turmoil (people would get too fussy about it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnowadays you may even expect shaming).<\/p>\n<p>I miss the naivete of that era.  Where we would embody ourselves with empathy and sympathy.  We deeply tried to understand each other.  Our comments were personalized.  Truly self-centered of course.  But we were figuring it all out.  All we wanted to do was be heard.  And crazy enough, it worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog. Amazingly, I can&#8217;t remember a life without it. To have this place where it captures my memories, my thoughts, and my desires. Technically, it was hosted elsewhere at a url formerly know as positively.chargedparticle.com and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5614\">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-5614","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\/5614","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=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}