{"id":2034,"date":"2013-04-28T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2021-10-09T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T22:11:44","slug":"why-should-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/04\/28\/why-should-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should I Write ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kind of share  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/post\/60351\">Stephen Downes&#8217; response<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/write-daily\/\">Why You Should Write Daily : zenhabits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that everyone &#8220;should&#8221; do it, but I do think that formulating and expressing opinions regularly (on topics that may not be part of one&#8217;s working life) is a useful exercise for most of us. Not having an audience, I don&#8217;t really have the option to persuade anyone, so for me it&#8217;s more about clarification and reinforcement of my own thoughts and ideas &#8211; and protection against the fear that I will forget them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kind of share Stephen Downes&#8217; response to Why You Should Write Daily : zenhabits. I don&#8217;t know that everyone &#8220;should&#8221; do it, but I do think that formulating and expressing opinions regularly (on topics that may not be part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/04\/28\/why-should-i-write\/\">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":[202,238],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogging","tag-stephen-downes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}