{"id":783,"date":"2007-02-23T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2007-02-23T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T13:24:00","slug":"a-thinking-blogger-thats-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/a-thinking-blogger-thats-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thinking Blogger – that’s me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been had an honour bestowed upon me which is also a tag, a meme that is an award. Because you know this motherhood thing? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about the multitasking. The clever, witty and insightful Mad Hatter <\/a>has kindly tagged me with the Thinking Blogger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Award.<\/p>\n

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Nice, eh? She nominated me on the basis of my little rant on child care<\/a>, but she said that it was your comments<\/a>, from all points on the political spectrum, which increased the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153think factor.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve long known this little blog of mine wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be half the fun it is if it weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t for you guys, so we can share this little award.<\/p>\n

And speaking of sharing, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about the sharing. Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m supposed to come up with five other Thinking Bloggers worthy of nomination. Except at least three of my favourites<\/a> have already<\/a> been tagged<\/a>. Am I allowed to repeat? No? Okay, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a little behind on my blog reading and this is spreading like the flu through preschool, so I hope I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quick enough.<\/p>\n

First off, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to tag Phantom Scribbler<\/a>. I heart Phantom. She has a way of using her own life as a lens to examine some weighty issues, and while she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opinionated as hell, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never didactic. I like that in a smart blogger. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m nominating her for this particular honour because of a recent post<\/a> written in response to a recent article in New York Magazine called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> I thought the idea of over-praising your kids was totally bogus until I read her post and the subsequent comments from the Pixies<\/a>. One of many, many posts that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found myself contemplating long after my browser window was closed.<\/p>\n

Next, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to tag Kerry at Popwatch Canada<\/a> for her post on religion<\/a> a week or so back. She also posts great Grey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Anatomy recaps, and has an obsession with Justin Timberlake that continues to perplex me, but threaded through the shiny bits about pop culture, Kerry blogs some pretty interesting ideas and opinions. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not just saying that because she writes my performance reviews, or because my boys are both in love with her and she may yet end up to be my daughter-in-law some day.<\/p>\n

My next nomination goes not to a particular post, but to the blog The Smartmouth Mombie<\/a> in general. For starters, I love any blog with a permanent preamble that says something like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is what a feminist writes like.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Like the other blogs I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tagged so far, Chris strikes a lovely balance between weighty thought pieces and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcminutiae of mothering\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pieces.<\/p>\n

Sadly, my next nominee has gone on temporary hiatus. Angry Pregnant Lawyer <\/a>is freshly back at work after maternity and painfully sleep deprived. I already miss her quick wit and cutting sarcasm, and I have learned a lot about American culture and politics from her. And yes, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a compliment!<\/p>\n

And finally, my last tag goes to JF Scientist at A Natural Scientist<\/a>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only just started reading this blog, but Jenny writes, according to her tag line, about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153science, education, feminism and religion.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I love love love her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ask a scientist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series, and the incredibly wide scope of her posts. I never know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find when I drop by, but I am assured I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll learn something \u00e2\u20ac\u201c often something I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know I needed to know, but sure enough, turns out I did.<\/p>\n

Wow, this was way harder than I thought. I tried to wander away from my usual favourites with this process. Thanks again to Mad Hatter for nominating me, and if reading my nominees makes you crave even more thinking bloggers, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s five more back at Mad Hatter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place<\/a>, and five more at Bub and Pie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place<\/a>, too. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to get any work done at this rate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been had an honour bestowed upon me which is also a tag, a meme that is an award. Because you know this motherhood thing? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about the multitasking. The clever, witty and insightful Mad Hatter has kindly tagged me with the Thinking Blogger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Award. Nice, eh? She nominated me on the basis of … Continue reading “A Thinking Blogger – that’s me!”<\/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":[15,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-memes","category-meta-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}