{"id":12654,"date":"2009-05-05T12:41:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T12:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/05\/five-years-of-blogging\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T12:41:29","slug":"five-years-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/05\/five-years-of-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Years of Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, my 'blogiversary' was yesterday.  My <\/font>inaugural post<\/font><\/a> appeared on 4 May 2004.  My mind drifts back to some of my earliest acquaintances in the blogosphere. I am happy to see that most of them are still at it.  Here is a partial list:  <\/font>Keith Burgess-Jackson<\/font><\/a>; <\/font>Gates of Vienna<\/font><\/a>; <\/font>Mangan's<\/font><\/a>; <\/font>Bill's Comments<\/font><\/a>; <\/font>Laudator Temporis Acti.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

The erudite Dr. Michael Gilleland of Laudator Temporis Acti<\/em> <\/font>credits me<\/font><\/a> with getting him going:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I started this blog just over three years ago, on May 10, 2004. Bill Vallicella, the <\/font>Maverick Philosopher<\/font><\/a>, was my inspiration. When I look back at my posts for that first day, I see some themes which I have revisited over the years: <\/font>Luddism<\/font><\/a>, <\/font>scatology<\/font><\/a>, and <\/font>solitude<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like Mike, I am drawn to the callipygian, but have no interest in the scatological as such.  I suppose every man has his wobble.  One might argue that a blog that does not display a bit of a man's wobble is no blog at all.  What we scribble here is loose and chatty and a little confessional.  Ecce homo!<\/em> warts and all. One debates with oneself as to the proper proportion of the personal to the impersonal.  Mike strikes a nice balance.  But I note yet another excursus into the scatological in his recent post, <\/font>An Effect of Fear<\/font><\/a>, which he introduces with a quotation from Pseudo-Aristotle.<\/font><\/p>\n

And now to all and sundry: Blog on!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually, my 'blogiversary' was yesterday.  My inaugural post appeared on 4 May 2004.  My mind drifts back to some of my earliest acquaintances in the blogosphere. I am happy to see that most of them are still at it.  Here is a partial list:  Keith Burgess-Jackson; Gates of Vienna; Mangan's; Bill's Comments; Laudator Temporis Acti. … Continue reading “Five Years of Blogging”<\/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":[92,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12654","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\/12654","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=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}