{"id":11879,"date":"2010-01-29T18:17:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/29\/of-blood-and-blog-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:17:13","slug":"of-blood-and-blog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/29\/of-blood-and-blog-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Blood and Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I don&#39;t think my experience is unusual: our blood relatives tend not to give a hoot about our blogging activities. They say blood is thicker than water, but&#0160;consanguinity &#0160;sure doesn&#39;t seem to translate into&#0160; spiritual affinity. No matter, the community that we can&#39;t find by blood, we&#39;ll find by blog.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The people who know us take us for granted. Is it not written that &quot;no prophet is welcome in his hometown&quot;? <\/font><font size=\"2\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><em><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 85%\">(Luke 4, 24: nemo propheta acceptus est in patria sua.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One could call it the injustice of propinquity. We often underestimate those nearby, whether by blood or space, while overestimating those afar.<br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t think my experience is unusual: our blood relatives tend not to give a hoot about our blogging activities. They say blood is thicker than water, but&#0160;consanguinity &#0160;sure doesn&#39;t seem to translate into&#0160; spiritual affinity. No matter, the community that we can&#39;t find by blood, we&#39;ll find by blog. The people who know us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/29\/of-blood-and-blog-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Blood and Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,92,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-autobiographical","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}