{"id":1315,"date":"2006-08-21T20:40:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2006-08-21T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T20:40:21","slug":"answering_the_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Answering The Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katja<\/a> tapped me with a meme a couple weeks ago and I didn’t realize it, so this is overdue:<\/p>\n

Why do you blog?<\/b><\/p>\n

Aside from my narcissistic tendencies, I blog because I’m a compulsive writer.  It’s the form in which I express myself best.  Before I started blogging, I kept a journal for about ten years, but that was a rambling, self-indulgent mess.  Blogging forces me to be a better writer; it also gives me a forum for normalizing society’s view of what it means to be a 30-something American guy with a physical disability.  <\/p>\n

Oh, and girls.  My blog serves me way better than any dating profile.  <\/p>\n

How long have you been blogging?<\/b>  <\/p>\n

My first entry appeared on August 24, 2002.

Self-portrait<\/b><\/p>\n

See the upper-left corner. 

Why do readers read your blog?<\/b><\/p>\n

I assume most of readers fall into one or more of the following <\/p>\n

a) family
b) friends
c) friends of friends
d) anonymous gimps\/geeks\/fellow travelers who have some fleeting interest in what I have to say <\/strong><\/p>\n

What was the last search phrase someone used to get to your site?<\/b> 
“19th floor”<\/p>\n

Which of your entries unjustly gets too little attention?<\/b><\/p>\n

I’m gratified that anyone takes the time to read me.<\/p>\n

Your current favorite blog?<\/b><\/p>\n

MetaFilter<\/a>, now and always <\/p>\n

What blog did you read most recently?<\/b>  <\/p>\n

ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n

Which feeds do you subscribe to?<\/b><\/p>\n

Way too many to list here.<\/p>\n

What four blogs are you tagging with this meme and why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Blue<\/a>, Sally<\/a>, Goldfish<\/a>, and PZ<\/a> because I would gladly hang with any of them.  <\/p>\n

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Katja tapped me with a meme a couple weeks ago and I didn’t realize it, so this is overdue: Why do you blog? Aside from my narcissistic tendencies, I blog because I’m a compulsive writer.  It’s the form in which I express myself best.  Before I started blogging, I kept a journal for about ten […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}