{"id":200,"date":"2011-12-08T23:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2011-12-08T23:40:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:40:31","slug":"blog-interrupted-reverb-broads-2011-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Blog, Interrupted: Reverb Broads 2011, #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Word-knitting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-201\" title=\"Word knitting\" src=\"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Word-knitting-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Word-knitting-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/profbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Word-knitting.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Reverb Broads 2011, December 8:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Why blog? Why do you or why do you like to blog (recognizing that these are not always the same thing)? (courtesy of\u00a0Kristen at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kristendomblogs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kristendomblogs.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only had this blog since this autumn, though I&#8217;ve been writing little essay-type things on LiveJournal and Facebook for several years. There are several reasons why I do this; I&#8217;ll leave it to you to figure out which motives lie behind which posts.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because I can never find a therapist I like.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because it is a joy and a puzzle to put words together in new, unexpected ways.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because my soapbox isn&#8217;t high enough.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because my family is tired of hearing the same old stories and opinions.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because the world needs a married, maternal, pedantic, pagan, bisexual, midwestern, liberal, artistic, overbearing, articulate, exasperated, exhausted, ironic, hilarious, outraged, optimistic, possibly insane observer.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because nobody will give me a TV show.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because I&#8217;m a historian, and I can&#8217;t stand not being in charge of my own contributions to the historical record.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because the lessons I suffer to learn might make someone else feel better (or at least laugh).<\/p>\n<p>I blog because spitting into the wind just isn&#8217;t futile enough some days.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because I&#8217;m an attention whore, and your comments feed my ravenous ego.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because writing out the words that loop through my head lets me get to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because it&#8217;s an expression of my First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>I blog because I&#8217;m determined to increase the incidence of correct punctuation usage on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I blog because I have a voice, and it can push back the dark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverb Broads 2011, December 8:\u00a0Why blog? Why do you or why do you like to blog (recognizing that these are not always the same thing)? (courtesy of\u00a0Kristen at\u00a0http:\/\/kristendomblogs.com) I&#8217;ve only had this blog since this autumn, though I&#8217;ve been writing little essay-type things on LiveJournal and Facebook for several years. 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