{"id":2595,"date":"2009-07-24T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2009-07-25T06:17:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T11:17:46","slug":"who-knew-blogging-out-loud-could-be-so-much-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/who-knew-blogging-out-loud-could-be-so-much-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Who knew blogging out loud could be so much fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>hanks a million to Lynn of <a href=\"http:\/\/diaryofaturtlehead.wordpress.com\/\">TurtleHead <\/a>for organizing a fantastic night out last night at <a href=\"http:\/\/bolottawa.wordpress.com\/\">Blog Out Loud Ottawa<\/a>, otherwise known as BOLO.  (Or #BOLO, if you&#8217;re on Twitter.)  I don&#8217;t know what I enjoyed more: seeing old friends, putting real live people together with their online personae, or finding a whole bunch of new Ottawa bloggers to read.  Okay, so I need more blogs to read like I need a short in my keyboard, but based on the readings last night, there&#8217;s a whack of blogs I need to be subscribing to TODAY so I don&#8217;t miss any more of the bloggy goodness.<\/p>\n<p>I took a tonne of photos (no surprise there) but it was the first time I took my fancy-ass flash out of the box, and my photos really don&#8217;t compare to the excellent stuff captured by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sindark.com\/\">Milan <\/a>and displayed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=21717726987\">Raw Sugar facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the post I read was one that I thought was a pretty good example of the kind of stories I like to tell here.  You might remember it from about this time last year.  It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/tristan-takes-a-dive\/\">Tristan Takes a Dive<\/a>, and I was supremely pleased to hear people laughing in all the right places when I read it.  The only thing more validating than comments is real live laughter!<\/p>\n<p>Once I figure out the best way to do it, I&#8217;ll upload the best of my pictures of the night somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks a million to Lynn of TurtleHead for organizing a fantastic night out last night at Blog Out Loud Ottawa, otherwise known as BOLO. (Or #BOLO, if you&#8217;re on Twitter.) I don&#8217;t know what I enjoyed more: seeing old friends, putting real live people together with their online personae, or finding a whole bunch of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/who-knew-blogging-out-loud-could-be-so-much-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who knew blogging out loud could be so much fun?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-my-15-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}