{"id":941,"date":"2007-05-18T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2007-05-18T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:32:55","slug":"you-are-seriously-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/05\/you-are-seriously-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;you are seriously weird&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking it over, and going through the my five year anniversary of my blog, it occurred to me that I&#8217;m  never, ever going to have a money-making blog.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just not like other people. And MOST people are not going to be interested in the unadulterated contents of my head.<\/p>\n<p>They are going to want recipes for homemade popcorn. And who can blame them?<\/p>\n<p>But that means that I should not worry about my hitcount. It&#8217;s just never going to get too high, no way around it. So that means my blog has a different purpose. After thinking about it, I think that it should be what it started out to be. A scrapbook of my thoughts. And an exercise book for writing, just to keep in the habit of stringing words together one after the other.<\/p>\n<p>My blog entries are not all good. Some of them are crap. But then again, there have been a few jewels that I am really proud of. And others that are like elixirs of larger ideas, that I can remember and use while puzzling over bigger ideas.<\/p>\n<p>So, THAT means I should not ever worry about the weirdness of an idea. It&#8217;s okay to be weird; it&#8217;s my blog and I can weird if I want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking it over, and going through the my five year anniversary of my blog, it occurred to me that I&#8217;m never, ever going to have a money-making blog. I&#8217;m just not like other people. And MOST people are not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/05\/you-are-seriously-weird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/05\/you-are-seriously-weird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}