{"id":2707,"date":"2010-06-28T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2010-06-28T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T20:02:50","slug":"in_search_of_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of A Schtick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I failed to make it into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/completelist\/0,29569,1999770,00.html\"><i>Time<\/i>&#8216;s annual list of the best blogs<\/a>. It&#8217;s beginning to dawn on me that my scattershot approach to blogging isn&#8217;t helping me cultivate my on-line brand identity (and I just threw up a little in my mouth when I realized I wrote &#8220;on-line brand identity&#8221;). But all my favorite topics&#8211;politics, pop culture, tech, fishnets&#8211;already have popular and high-profile blogs devoted to them. I need to come up with some kind of stunt blogging event, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theseventeenmagazineproject.com\/\">girl who followed to the letter the edicts of <i>Seventeen <\/i>magazine<\/a> for a month. Maybe I could chronicle my efforts to read every Star Trek tie-in novel ever written or to sample the dishes of every local restaurant in pur\u00e9ed form. There must be some way I can completely waste my time while still getting the attention I so desperately crave. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I failed to make it into Time&#8216;s annual list of the best blogs. It&#8217;s beginning to dawn on me that my scattershot approach to blogging isn&#8217;t helping me cultivate my on-line brand identity (and I just threw up a little in my mouth when I realized I wrote &#8220;on-line brand identity&#8221;). But all <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2707' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-2707","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-HF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","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=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}