{"id":1473,"date":"2009-10-17T20:29:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T00:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2009-10-17T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T00:31:32","slug":"blogger-know-thyself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/17\/blogger-know-thyself\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger, know thyself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaching.tumblr.com\/post\/215773332\/the-27-daily-affirmations-for-bloggers\" target=\"_blank\">Gerard van der Leun<\/a> knows blogging well. Perhaps a bit too well:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8220;THE 27 DAILY AFFIRMATIONS FOR BLOGGERS&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When I post under an assumed name, I can get in closer touch with my Inner Sociopath.<\/li>\n<li>Through block-quotes and fisking I have the power to transform even the most harmless statements of my enemies into concrete evidence of their evil plans to enslave mankind and rule the world.<\/li>\n<li>In all humility I do not seek to rule the world. I seek only complete agreement and total capitulation.<\/li>\n<li>I assume full responsibility for my posts, especially the good ones that are just links to someone else\u2019s posts.<\/li>\n<li>If, after publication, one of my posts should appear irresponsible, I will be responsible enough to make it disappear, along with the Google cache of it. <\/li>\n<li>Being more confused about the First Amendment than I am about copyright, I am free to reveal the obscene number of hours I blog at work, and the URL of my secret blog where I post the truth about my coworkers\u2019 hygiene, bodily functions, porn-surfing habits, and gender reassignment surgeries without being fired. I know my rights.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard van der Leun knows blogging well. Perhaps a bit too well: &#8220;THE 27 DAILY AFFIRMATIONS FOR BLOGGERS&#8221; When I post under an assumed name, I can get in closer touch with my Inner Sociopath. Through block-quotes and fisking I have the power to transform even the most harmless statements of my enemies into concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[59,204,58],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-addiction","tag-blogging","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}