{"id":79,"date":"2005-06-09T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/06\/09\/blogging-drawbacks\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:34:49","slug":"blogging-drawbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/06\/09\/blogging-drawbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Drawbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a173\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got an interesting email from a good friend of mine the other day pointing out a drawback to my blog, namely that it makes it all too easy for others to not\u00a0write since they already know what&#8217;s going on in my life.*\u00a0 (&#8220;So that explains it!&#8221; I thought, nodding wisely,\u00a0slightly relieved.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I write because I&#8217;m self-involved.\u00a0 But I also keep this blog in the hopes that my friends will read it and occasionally write me&#8230;or\u00a0at least post a comment so I know they&#8217;re alive.\u00a0 So, start your own blogs (come on, everyone&#8217;s doing it!), drop me an email,** post a comment, send me a text message, come visit, or call and leave random messages on my phone when you know I won&#8217;t answer (because, as most of you all know, I&#8217;m not much of a phone person, so unless you like pulling teeth, that may not be the best method of keep in touch with me).\u00a0 I&#8217;m not picky.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t make me beg.\u00a0 Pretty please?\u00a0 (There, are you happy now?)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>* To my unnamed emailer, you know I appreciated the message and loved hearing what you&#8217;re up to!\u00a0 *hugs*\u00a0 Don&#8217;t hate me.\u00a0 =)<\/p>\n<p>** To future emailers, I promise not to post the email on my blog and publicly berate you for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an interesting email from a good friend of mine the other day pointing out a drawback to my blog, namely that it makes it all too easy for others to not\u00a0write since they already know what&#8217;s going on in my life.*\u00a0 (&#8220;So that explains it!&#8221; I thought, nodding wisely,\u00a0slightly relieved.)\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-little-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}