{"id":1812,"date":"2012-09-23T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2021-10-09T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T22:14:19","slug":"why-i-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/09\/23\/why-i-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I do this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of any readers this may seem pointless but somehow I find it useful to keep links to things I come across and to record some of the thoughts I have about them. The WordPress tool lets me do this and although it might as well be private it feels as if even if no-one reads it the fact that it is accessible makes me think a bit (though perhaps often not enough) before committing to &#8220;publish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Mackness discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/jennymackness.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/30\/why-we-blog\/\">Why we blog<\/a> from the point of view of an active on-line educator, but some of the points apply also to a case like mine.In particular, the first reason she cites is &#8220;to serve as a substitute for a poor memory, by aggregating interesting ideas and links into one location thus creating a personal searchable digital library&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of any readers this may seem pointless but somehow I find it useful to keep links to things I come across and to record some of the thoughts I have about them. The WordPress tool lets me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/09\/23\/why-i-do-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[202,239],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogging","tag-jenny-mackness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4177,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}