{"id":13875,"date":"2020-11-19T22:37:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2020-11-19T22:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:37:31","slug":"this_is_still_why_i_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/11\/19\/this_is_still_why_i_blog\/","title":{"rendered":"This is still why I blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifteenth anniversary of this blog came and went without me noticing it.<\/p>\n<p>What I did notice, though, was this post from 15 years ago, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/why-i-blog\/\">why I blog<\/a>. All of my reasons from back then still hold true. I could have written it today, if I wrote such long posts these days.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to write it today, I would add a fourth reason. I write because I enjoy writing. I enjoy finding the right words and phrases to express my thoughts and feelings as well as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy writing text the same way that I enjoy writing code. Done well, the two are very similar. Programming as a field is often lumped together with maths and technical subjects, but coding in high-level languages has as much to do with writing skills as with engineering. You want to express certain ideas or concepts as clearly, correctly, and elegantly as possible. You want to be concise but not too concise; consistent but not repetitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifteenth anniversary of this blog came and went without me noticing it. What I did notice, though, was this post from 15 years ago, about why I blog. All of my reasons from back then still hold true. I could have written it today, if I wrote such long posts these days. If I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky_things","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13881,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}