{"id":12425,"date":"2009-09-02T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/reasons-to-blog\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:42:44","slug":"reasons-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/reasons-to-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Different bloggers, different reasons.  I see this weblog as <\/font><\/p>\n

1. An on-line notebook: a place to preserve and organize quotations from and notes on my reading.<\/font><\/p>\n

2. An on-line journal: a daily record of the twists and turns of my intellectual life, along with some other sides of my life. A celebration of the life of the mind, an exemplification of the philosophical life. A record of one man's quotidian grappling with the world and its riddles.<\/font><\/p>\n

3. A didactic site: a place where a serious and resolute reader can learn some philosophy for free.<\/font><\/p>\n

4. A research site: a venue for trying out ideas and refining them in the teeth of critical comments.<\/font><\/p>\n

5. An exercise in learning how to write better.<\/font><\/p>\n

6. An experiment in what blogging might be good for.<\/font><\/p>\n

7. A soapbox from which to deliver my commentary on the passing scene and do my bit to improve the world, one blog post at a time.<\/font><\/p>\n

8. An open-ended project some of the purposes of which have yet to emerge.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Different bloggers, different reasons.  I see this weblog as 1. An on-line notebook: a place to preserve and organize quotations from and notes on my reading. 2. An on-line journal: a daily record of the twists and turns of my intellectual life, along with some other sides of my life. A celebration of the life of … Continue reading “Reasons to Blog”<\/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":[92,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","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=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}