{"id":2329,"date":"2010-04-11T22:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2010-04-11T22:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:18:20","slug":"i-dont-read-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100411-2329.htm","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t read your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my siblings dearly.  They&#8217;re all wonderful, and wonderfully supportive.<\/p>\n<p>But some of them DO NOT and WILL NOT read blogs.  Others do and will read blogs&#8211;just not MY blog.  <\/p>\n<p>Three siblings have blogs of their own and read mine in turn (<a href=\"http:\/\/templedweller.menterz.com\">Anna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/defectivereflection.menterz.com\">Joshua<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gracebug.menterz.com\">Grace<\/a>).  My mom reads my blog faithfully.  The other 3 siblings don&#8217;t read blogs (except maybe ones very specifically related to politics, the Marine corps, eRepublik, or Husker football).  And my dad reads plenty of political blogs but not mine.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t anticipate this changing anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a simple excerpt from an old e-mail to give you an idea for why I might think that way.  Daniel writes in an e-mail with the subject &#8220;Blog&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s with the multiple color schemes and formatting depending on which page you are on?<\/p>\n<p>I am not reading it &#8230; just trying to find out which class you teach &#8230; you can check the times &#8230; too short to read<\/p>\n<p>daniel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you love that?  He wanted to know what the deal was (I was switching from all html pages to php constructed html pages while changing my blog design)&#8211;but wanted to make sure that I knew that he wasn&#8217;t reading.  And to make double sure, he reminded me that I can check my statistics to see that he didn&#8217;t spend enough time on my site to actually read anything.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t read my blog, by all means, let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my siblings dearly. They&#8217;re all wonderful, and wonderfully supportive. But some of them DO NOT and WILL NOT read blogs. Others do and will read blogs&#8211;just not MY blog. Three siblings have blogs of their own and read mine in turn (Anna, Joshua, and Grace). My mom reads my blog faithfully. The other &#8230; <a title=\"I don\u2019t read your blog\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100411-2329.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I don\u2019t read your blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}