{"id":4940,"date":"2011-02-02T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2011-02-01T20:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:16:59","slug":"six-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/six-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Six years ago today: My first blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six years ago today, on February 2, 2005, I wrote <\/a>my very first-ever blog post:<\/p>\n

Okay, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been reading about blogs for quite some time now. At first, the idea was quaintly geeky, which of course immediately appealed to me. But aside from generally knowing what they were, and stumbling across a few here and there, I never really realized what a universe unto themselves blogs have become.<\/p>\n

So I started really thinking about it. To blog or not to blog? Note the insecurity in each of the questions I pondered: Am I funny enough to blog? (because if I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have humour then I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have anything at all.) Does anyone really care what I have to say? What would I talk about? What if nobody reads my blog? What if somebody reads my blog? And the real biggie: do I have the resources to commit to a blog right now? Well, the last one is the only one I can answer right now. Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back at work for the first time in a year, I can at least probably find an hour or so a week (on my lunch hour, bien s\u00c3\u00bbr<\/em>!) For the record, it took me about 15 alt+ combinations before I could get that \u00c3\u00bb accent right. <\/span><\/p>\n

If I could just type instead of editing and playing and getting lost in the friggin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 thesaurus I could probably do this in about half the time. If I only had an attention span\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

So what would I blog about? Well, my kids of course. What else is there of significance in my universe? So does the world really need another soccer-mom wanna-be sending dispatches from suburbia, trying to strike a voice somewhere between Erma Bombeck, Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Cosby, but in the 21st century, not Jewish, not male and not black? And potentially not really funny?<\/p>\n

Well, why the hell not?<\/p>\n

So here we go. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so self-conscious as I type away, wondering if you are rolling your eyes at me or thinking cruel thoughts about my writing skills or (worst of all) have completely lost interest and have not even made it this far. What if I install a hit counter and I have to spend all my free time hitting refresh so it looks like somebody is reading my blog?<\/p>\n

So, are you still reading? Should I publish this, or banish it to bad-idea heaven?<\/p>\n

Ah, what the hell. Here we go!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m both charmed and, truth be told, vaguely disturbed at how little has changed. Still toe-in-the-carpet insecure, still unable to complete a thought without interrupting myself, still chasing that precious laugh.<\/p>\n

Fast forward six years, 1,870 posts, 24,701 comments and nearly (eek!) half a million page views. I couldn’t even guess how many words I’ve plowed through, nor how many hours (days? weeks??) I’ve spent here glued to my keyboard instead of doing some *real* work like scrubbing sink grout or alphabetizing my soup cans. <\/p>\n

And yet, I will freely admit, the blog is one of the best gifts I’ve ever given myself. If I could fly back through time and tell 2005 me of the crazy ride I was about to launch, never in a million years would I have believed me. And you, my bloggy peeps, are at the heart of it all. You make it all worthwhile!<\/p>\n

So, are you still reading? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six years ago today, on February 2, 2005, I wrote my very first-ever blog post: Okay, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been reading about blogs for quite some time now. At first, the idea was quaintly geeky, which of course immediately appealed to me. But aside from generally knowing what they were, and stumbling across a few here … Continue reading “Six years ago today: My first blog post”<\/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":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-meta-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}