{"id":322,"date":"2013-04-18T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:03:07","slug":"why-i-decided-to-blog-a-few-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"WHY I DECIDED TO BLOG&#8230;A FEW REASONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In no particular order, here are some reasons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People said I should.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like Augustine, writing clarifies my thinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Even though I have written three books and several articles, I have loads of material which is better suited for the provisional nature of blogging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related to the previous reason is that blogging is a great place to test out your ideas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You get multiple perspectives which help sharpen your convictions while also exposing errors in your judgment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I gave up Twitter a long time ago due to my frustration over receiving spam, best recommendations on pizza restaurants, and a daily deluge of silly sound bites.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My gratitude goes out to Blake Freeburg, Terry Cokenour, and Kent Major who made this blog a reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order, here are some reasons: People said I should. Like Augustine, writing clarifies my thinking. Even though I have written three books and several articles, I have loads of material which is better suited for the provisional nature of blogging. Related to the previous reason is that blogging is a great place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}