{"id":396,"date":"2012-04-06T19:06:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=396"},"modified":"2012-04-07T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:12:08","slug":"happy-blogiversery-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Happy Blogiversery to Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-397\" title=\"cake\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"143\" \/>Well, I appear to have been blogging for a year now, more or less regularly, so that&#8217;s something.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve exactly set the literary world afire, but after all this whole blog thing is as much about me practicing writing and exercising a bit of discipline in doing it as anything.\u00a0 The blog as a tool for marketing and a gathering place for my thousands of fans can wait a while.\u00a0 Anyway, it&#8217;s been fun so far, and hopefully it will continue to be so.\u00a0 I was reminded this morning, when I finally started getting a serial I&#8217;m writing off the ground (not the new serial Saturday serial, <em>another<\/em> serial, and I think the fact that I&#8217;m writing a bunch of serials is evidence that I may not have this marketing thing down, like I said), that writing really is a satisfying thing, whether anyone else cares about it or not.\u00a0 When it&#8217;s going well, the sun shines brighter and the birds chirp in a more musical fashion.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s to writing, I say, whether anyone reads it or not.\u00a0 But I hope ya&#8217;ll do. \u00a0And for the person who found this page while looking for a place selling hand-made candles in Madison county &#8211; sorry, but I hope you found something of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I appear to have been blogging for a year now, more or less regularly, so that&#8217;s something.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve exactly set the literary world afire, but after all this whole blog thing is as much about me practicing writing and exercising a bit of discipline in doing it as anything.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}