{"id":6371,"date":"2016-06-13T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/not-blog-worthy\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:56:45","slug":"not-blog-worthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/13\/not-blog-worthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Blog-Worthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good blogger exercises restraint as to what he posts.  Too much of the merely personal makes for a boring blog.  Facebook is the place for narcissism.  But a blog bare of all traces of the personal is not a blog either, by my definition, one with which you are free to disagree. Here is an entry from my written journal which illustrates what needn't be <\/span> published to the four corners of the earth:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The old push broom has been retired from service, 30 years worth, it may well be.  The handle had become unrepairably unattached to the brush.  I believe I bought the old broom when we purchased our first house 30 years ago in '86.  I bought a new 'industrial' broom on Saturday, long-handled and serious, at the Crismon Road Home Despot<\/span> Depot.   I can't wait to try it out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neue Besen kehren gut!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fear not, I shall not report on the state of my bowels, which is excellent, nor pull a Trump and crow about the efficacy of my schlong.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A good blogger exercises restraint as to what he posts.  Too much of the merely personal makes for a boring blog.  Facebook is the place for narcissism.  But a blog bare of all traces of the personal is not a blog either, by my definition, one with which you are free to disagree. Here is … Continue reading “Not Blog-Worthy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","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=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}