{"id":3329,"date":"2022-06-26T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2022-06-26T21:42:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T04:42:54","slug":"im-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/im-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" data-attachment-id=\"3330\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/im-blogging\/pexels-pixabay-247759\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-pixabay-247759.jpg?fit=2000%2C1054&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1054\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pexels-pixabay-247759\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-pixabay-247759.jpg?fit=1024%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-pixabay-247759.jpg?resize=1024%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-pixabay-247759.jpg?resize=1024%2C540&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-pixabay-247759.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-pixabay-247759.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m blogging because I have to. Seth Godin told me to do something regularly as a practice, so I&#8217;m doing what he said. He&#8217;s right. Taking the magic out of the creative work is really how to make more creative work. Being consistent is good for my sanity, and has really pushed me to make something up that I would have maybe never done. I took a break for a little while, but I&#8217;m back baby ( famous last blog post phrase )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m blogging because I have to. Seth Godin told me to do something regularly as a practice, so I&#8217;m doing what he said. He&#8217;s right. Taking the magic out of the creative work is really how to make more creative work. Being consistent is good for my sanity, and has really pushed me to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158666434799935_26707174888":"","twitter_aToyMjM4MTQzMDs=_22381430":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc33gc-RH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":812,"url":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/do-what-you-hate\/","url_meta":{"origin":3329,"position":0},"title":"Do What You Hate!","author":"scot","date":"May 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been writing a bunch about entertainment and noticing how irked I am by so many things in this field that I chose. 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