{"id":47,"date":"2004-03-30T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T14:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/email-conversations-1-why-blog\/"},"modified":"2004-03-30T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T14:24:19","slug":"email-conversations-1-why-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/email-conversations-1-why-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"email conversations 1- why blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having an email discussion with someone I&#8217;ve never met through one of my online doll groups.  It has been an exercise for my brain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>about why I am blogging-<br \/>\nI am thinking a lot about connections&#8230; I worked in an Artist studio building for 11 years and then it burned down in 1999.  Since then, I have been working at home.  The real tragedy of the fire (for me) was the loss of community.  I have found it to be irreplaceable.  I have been searching ever since.  One attempt to find a community has been my blog.  So far it hasn&#8217;t generated anything, although I think it has been a useful tool for me- helps to have a place to record progress, and writing out ideas and thoughts  help make me think more clearly.  I am a bit writing phobic, so pushing myself is good.  I tend to get WAY too isolated, working at home, alone.  It is not good for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having an email discussion with someone I&#8217;ve never met through one of my online doll groups. It has been an exercise for my brain&#8230; about why I am blogging- I am thinking a lot about connections&#8230; I worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/email-conversations-1-why-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}