{"id":11734,"date":"2022-08-01T19:20:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T00:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2022-08-01T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T00:20:42","slug":"a-life-in-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11734","title":{"rendered":"A Life In Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my website for just over two decades now, originally to showcase my cartoons and photography, but it also included a blog, which back in the day were simple online diaries. I keep telling people that mine is a life blog, because most of what you find in the blogosphere are topical blogs, most of them political, and I get political lots on mine. But it&#8217;s a life blog. You might find me writing about &#8220;Adventures in home ownership&#8221; in my &#8220;department of random complaining&#8221; as much as pulpit thumping about prejudice toward gay folk.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at my server logs this morning and saw that someone, via a Google search (Google doesn&#8217;t let you see the search strings anymore) hit on a series of blog posts that I tagged with the keyword &#8220;Prejudice&#8221;. So I decided to see what they saw <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/tag\/prejudice\">and followed the link back to my blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is it unforgivably vain of me to look at the old stuff an be impressed with the quality of my writing? There&#8217;s a lot of good stuff in there going back years. But also, browsing a lot of old blog posts on the topic of homophobia really drives home how the current torrent of hate mongering toward us isn&#8217;t all that much different from previous waves of it. It&#8217;s like nothing ever changes in the American sewer. But at least I could get a few things off my chest. Beats yelling at the TV.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how much longer I have, hopefully enough to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\"><em>A Coming Out Story<\/em><\/a>. I&#8217;ll be 69 in just a few weeks and the way I&#8217;m feeling lately I&#8217;m finally at the point of admitting to myself that I&#8217;m actually old now. I&#8217;m tired all the time now. But I could hope that something of my art, something of my photography, and maybe my blog have a life after mine. On the blog, which is after all just a life blog, I&#8217;ve said things I felt needed to be said whether I had an audience for it or not, and my blog has never had a lot of traffic. But at least I got it out there and I&#8217;m happy with what I wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had my website for just over two decades now, originally to showcase my cartoons and photography, but it also included a blog, which back in the day were simple online diaries. I keep telling people that mine is a life blog, because most of what you find in the blogosphere are topical blogs, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[145,9,157],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-life","tag-blogging","tag-the-old-man-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}