{"id":256,"date":"2007-02-19T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=256"},"modified":"2007-02-19T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T02:28:07","slug":"time-for-betterment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/time-for-betterment\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for betterment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmldatabases.org\/WK\/blog\/6486_Blogging_is_hard.item\">A blog I happened to read some while ago<\/a> (how I got there, I no longer remember) pointed out a common feature of many blogs: all too frequently, they descend into endless ranting.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;one thing I have realized is that posting without complaining is a hard thing to do. About a year ago I decided I wanted to try to only post positive things and my post volume has been through the floor ever since. I guess it&rsquo;s just a lot of fun to post to the world and bitch about whatever it is you feel is wrong with what&rsquo;s going on. Hence forth, I&rsquo;m rejecting that position and returning to criticizing all that I think is crap.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nJust like the author of that blog, I decided &ndash; already when I started this blog &ndash; that I would stay away from complaining. I wanted to blog about things I would want to remember and be reminded of later &ndash; and to spend my time thinking and writing about things that are worth thinking and writing about. Nevertheless, here I am, in that same sinkhole of complaining.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut unlike that guy, I do NOT want to return to &ldquo;criticizing all that I think is crap&rdquo;. On the contrary, I think it is time for betterment. I hereby resolve to stop complaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog I happened to read some while ago (how I got there, I no longer remember) pointed out a common feature of many blogs: all too frequently, they descend into endless ranting. &#8230;one thing I have realized is that posting without complaining is a hard thing to do. About a year ago I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-observing_the_self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}