{"id":5874,"date":"2012-06-17T21:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T02:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2012-06-18T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T16:14:51","slug":"notice-this-is-a-life-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5874","title":{"rendered":"Notice: This Is A Life Blog…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been very graciously linked to recently by a couple folks, including Fred Clark whose readership I must assume is every bit as decent and good hearted as he is. So for the sake of those just tuning in, and especially after that last post, I feel should explain something.<\/p>\n

You may have noticed things are a bit odd around here. \u00a0 Hi…my name is Bruce Garrett. \u00a0 This is my place. \u00a0 It’s odd because I am.<\/p>\n

I started blogging back before blogging really took off, years ago in the late 1990s when I read about someone who was just basically posting their diaries online as a kind of living art project. I thought that was kinda cool and started doing it myself. \u00a0 I wasn’t about getting attention. \u00a0 If you have the art gene in you too then you understand. Mostly, I do graphic art…imagery. \u00a0 Try the cartoon and photo galleries sometime. \u00a0 But sometimes I try to write.<\/p>\n

I started blogging back in 1998, although this blog’s archives only go back to 2002. \u00a0 Before then it was just a random note here and there on what was nominally my cartoon and photography web site, hosted by the company I had my email account on. \u00a0 Then in late 2001 a friend showed me how to get my own domain started up and offered to host me. \u00a0 Once again the site was mostly about my political cartoons and my photography, with the blog being an extra…a place I could write about this and that. \u00a0 The blog, like everything else about the site back then (and mostly still now) was hand rolled. I was earning a good living then as a software developer and I just typed my own HTML into my programmer’s editor and uploaded it. It wasn’t until my original domain host retired and I had to move the site elsewhere that I was talked into switching the blog software over to WordPress. Even so, most of the rest of the site, like my household computers (apart from the Macs), is hand built.<\/p>\n

Of course, being the times we live in, the blog started capturing my feelings about political issues and in particular the gay rights struggle. \u00a0 But this is not actually a political blog. \u00a0 It is not a blog about gay rights specifically, or religion or philosophy or economics. \u00a0 It is not about my opinions on anything. \u00a0 I am not doing punditry. I only vent a lot about politics here because it’s more satisfying then yelling at the TV. \u00a0 But that’s not what this blog is. \u00a0 It’s a life blog. \u00a0 Basically just random bits and pieces of one guy’s life as he lives it, like an always changing collage. It’s The Story So Far<\/em>…<\/p>\n

If it seems confusing at times, that’s normal. \u00a0 I’m confusing. \u00a0 Just ask anyone who knows me. \u00a0 Especially the certain someone whose regrettably thin skin I’ve been poking with that Llama. \u00a0 Or maybe you shouldn’t ask him. \u00a0 No…don’t ask him…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been very graciously linked to recently by a couple folks, including Fred Clark whose readership I must assume is every bit as decent and good hearted as he is. So for the sake of those just tuning in, and especially after that last post, I feel should explain something. You may have noticed things […]<\/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":[9,55],"class_list":["post-5874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-blogging","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874","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=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}