{"id":512,"date":"2011-09-14T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:00:49","slug":"why-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Why blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_513\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mg_5342-e1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-513 size-medium\" title=\"_MG_5342-e1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mg_5342-e1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mg_5342-e1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mg_5342-e1.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Something I made from scratch for my son, just because that&#8217;s the kind of thing I do when I&#8217;m not reading a book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/melbournemumma.com\/\">blogger<\/a> recently shared why she blogs. Since many of you have only recently discovered my blog, I thought I would share why I write it.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I blog? The same reason I make lampshades out of rice paper and leaves, stay up late thinking about paintings I could create, and make iced tea out of weeds. I am creative, and I process my life through writing and art.<\/p>\n<p>I could easily do all these things without broadcasting my thoughts publicly. The reason I picked up blogging again was to try to connect some seriously disconnected spheres. One of my values is to be real&#8211;honest, transparent, and full of life. With my busy work schedule and parenting routine, I don&#8217;t think my real-life acquaintances have the opportunity to get to know me. I hope my blog will bridge the disconnect and lead to life-giving experiences when we do meet again next.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you blog? I would love to hear about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another blogger recently shared why she blogs. Since many of you have only recently discovered my blog, I thought I would share why I write it. Why do I blog? The same reason I make lampshades out of rice paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=512\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31,40],"tags":[198,199,327,337,598,803,957,1026],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication","category-faith-2","category-writing-2","tag-blog","tag-blogging","tag-creative","tag-creativity","tag-life-giving","tag-real","tag-transparent","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}