{"id":14,"date":"2006-10-30T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tripalot.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/apostrophizing\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T01:42:25","slug":"apostrophizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/apostrophizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostrophizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate blogs. Seriously. They are such a waste of bandwidth. I am typing absolutely nothing worth reading right now.<\/p>\n<p>If someone is reading this, then I am wasting his\/her time.<\/p>\n<p>If no one is reading this, then I am wasting my time.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this is a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>How many of us realize that 99.9% of blog content (and that means mine and yours too) is of no interest to anyone other than the writer and the writer&#039;s stalker ex-girlfriends? Sure, a long lost friend will get a kick out of reading a blog entry or two, just to see if the writer&#039;s personality has changed, but after the &#034;still a dork&#034; realization kicks in, the long-lost friend decides it&#039;s better to stay lost, and that&#039;s that. No more blog reading. The writer is back to apostrophizing again.<\/p>\n<p>Apostrophizing&#8230; is that a word? Who cares. I&#039;ll leave it an &#034;exercise for the reader&#034; to go look up apostrophizing on dictionary.com.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise for the reader? Yeah, right. Exercise for nobody but myself 5 years from now when I go re-reading my blog to see if there are any hidden gems.<\/p>\n<p>There ain&#039;t, Trav. There ain&#039;t. This is crappity crap crap and you know it. You knew it then (when I am writing this) and you know it now (when I am reading this). I&#039;m just been talking to myself all along. Years of talking to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs are so dumb. They are just journals. Total waste of bandwidth. Too much repetition. No real effort goes into constructing or steering the thoughts. It&#039;s just improvisation. A mess. Like my music.<\/p>\n<p>And that, folks (i.e., future Trav and stalker ex-gfs) is why after creating music for 26+ years I have made $0 from it. I haven&#039;t sold a single CD. Or story. Or photo. Or movie. Zippo.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, no one &#034;out there&#034; cares what I think or do. I am anonymous. Just like them. Just like you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate blogs. Seriously. They are such a waste of bandwidth. I am typing absolutely nothing worth reading right now. If someone is reading this, then I am wasting his\/her time. If no one is reading this, then I am wasting my time. Either way, this is a waste of time. How many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}