{"id":169,"date":"2005-07-06T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/its-official-blogging-is-over\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T23:49:00","slug":"its-official-blogging-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/its-official-blogging-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: Blogging is OVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came to this conclusion on Sunday, when I saw not one, but two references to blogs in distinctively NON-cutting-edge places:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/pix\/lockhorns-blogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/content\/chronicle\/comics\/archive\/showComick.mpl?date=20050703&amp;name=Lockhorns\">The Lockhorns<\/a> contains a reference\/word play about Leroy reading blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Parade Magazine, that Readers Digest of the Sunday paper, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/articles\/editions\/2005\/edition_07-03-2005\/featured_3\">column on how to make your own blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Have you thought about creating a personal Web site but been discouraged by the technical hurdles? Perhaps it&#8217;s time you discovered the power of the blog. You&#8217;ve likely heard about the blog phenomenon and wondered what all the hoopla is about&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doonesbury backs me up on this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailysally.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/doonesbury-blog-attack.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/pix\/doonesbury-blogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to this conclusion on Sunday, when I saw not one, but two references to blogs in distinctively NON-cutting-edge places: The Lockhorns contains a reference\/word play about Leroy reading blogs. Parade Magazine, that Readers Digest of the Sunday paper, has a column on how to make your own blog: &#8220;Have you thought about creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}