{"id":12970,"date":"2020-01-24T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2020-01-24T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:49:17","slug":"bloggy-thoughts-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/bloggy-thoughts-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggy thoughts: Should I stay or should I go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been about six months since I published a blog post, and in the year before that I only posted a handful of times. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been wondering: is it time to shutter the blog? The kids are too old for me to write about them now; their stories are their own to tell. I used to summarize the theme of the blog as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153raising a family in Ottawa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but I feel like the lion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s share of that work is done. And while photos have sustained the blog for the last few years, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like I have enough to say about taking them anymore, at least not enough to keep the blog interesting and relevant.<\/p>\n

So, is there value in me blogging any more? There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a cost to consider. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not overly expensive to host the blog, and I host my photography site off the same domain, so that’s not going anywhere. More problematically, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a while since I updated the look and especially the functionality. Google tells me it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not particularly mobile friendly. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even remember half the ways I hacked the code over the years and my eyes glaze over every time I think of making any changes to it. And now Flickr has a new model where the thousands upon thousands of images that I had hosted for free going way back to 2005 will now cost about a hundred bucks a year to keep, or else I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have a blog riddled with broken links and lost images.<\/p>\n

Turning 50 has been a big year for me, and I have new things that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested in now. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to blog about my new knitting addiction (make all the things!) and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been exploring Tarot cards. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to have a place to talk about the food I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve enjoyed making, the ways I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m expressing my creativity through making things, and how satisfying it is to be a woman on the far side of 50 who has figured out so many of the very same things I whined about when blog and I were both younger and less sure of ourselves.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even particularly mind that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m likely to be talking to myself. The heyday of the blog, a dozen years ago when Lucas was the Player to be Named Later and I was up to my ears and sinking in the quagmire of parenting three under six with a tribe of online friends and followers has long since passed. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind talking to myself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I do it all the time! I’m just not sure if I’m invested enough in the idea of continuing to do the kind of updates and maintenance that I really should do. Oh technology.<\/p>\n

I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not quite ready to say goodbye, or even see you later. Maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just putter around here for a while, without any pressure or expectations from myself, and if I decide I’m going to keep on keeping on, one day when I’m full of energy and enthusiasm I’ll look into overhauling the works. If a girl can grow and change and mature, her silly old blog can follow suit, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been about six months since I published a blog post, and in the year before that I only posted a handful of times. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been wondering: is it time to shutter the blog? The kids are too old for me to write about them now; their stories are their own to tell. I used … Continue reading “Bloggy thoughts: Should I stay or should I go?”<\/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":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-asides","category-it-is-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12973,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}