{"id":3004,"date":"2018-02-12T06:13:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2018-02-12T06:13:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T11:13:34","slug":"6-reasons-why-blogging-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/6-reasons-why-blogging-is-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons Why Blogging Is Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

1\u2014Because helpful strangers will take time out of their busy schedules to tweet or email you about the smallest typo you make and not even ask for credit.<\/p>\n

2\u2014Because other strangers are happily invested in your mental health and delighted to tell you that you should stop blogging forever since you\u2019re obviously a narcissistic loon.<\/p>\n

3\u2014Because people feel free to diss whatever credentials you have and call you a hack when they don\u2019t like your blog. We all need a dose of humility now and then, right?<\/p>\n

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4\u2014Because someone\u2019s always bound to completely misread your blog and respond to what you didn\u2019t<\/em> say, which shows you that everything in life is contingent.<\/p>\n

5\u2014Because what\u2019s the point of meditating and getting centered if you don\u2019t have people hassling you? Blog nimrods offer rich material to float away from.<\/p>\n

6\u2014Because if you write satire (or crime fiction) it\u2019s always good to have new targets and victims.<\/p>\n

Lev Raphael is the author of 25 books in many genres<\/a>. His books and shorter works have been translated into 15 languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1\u2014Because helpful strangers will take time out of their busy schedules to tweet or email you about the smallest typo you make and not even ask for credit. 2\u2014Because other strangers are happily invested in your mental health and delighted to tell you that you should stop blogging forever since you\u2019re obviously a narcissistic loon. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[442,714,1073,183,182,441],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-advice-for-bloggers","tag-advice-for-blogging","tag-blog","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-the-blogging-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}