{"id":1214,"date":"2006-07-08T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2006-07-08T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T13:42:55","slug":"are-you-addicted-to-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/07\/08\/are-you-addicted-to-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Addicted To Blogging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But you can&#8217;t post <a href=\"http:\/\/darmano.typepad.com\/bloggers_anonymous\/2006\/06\/the_mock_10_sig.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>  unless you tell us how many of these items apply to you.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n<p>Michael&#8217;s answers:<\/p>\n<p>10.  No.  But if the stats were in plain English like pesky godson has checked your blog 79,5 times in the last two days instead of 71.199.090.12 blah blah, I would.<\/p>\n<p>9. Not an issue. She also has a  love affair with the blog. <\/p>\n<p>8. Well duh! How else would it get fed?<\/p>\n<p>7.  Not to mention my mother&#8217;s prolonged agonizing passing. Should I be locked up?<\/p>\n<p>6.  Nope.  I&#8217;m flattered when one person posts a comment even if it is just a question.<\/p>\n<p>5. Rarely.  I really try to control myself because I&#8217;m deathly afraid that rakkity (retired) will stop<br \/>\n   contributing. <\/p>\n<p>4. The blog is self-selecting.  I used to have more real friends.<\/p>\n<p>3.  No, because answering the blog&#8217;s &#8220;Feed Me!&#8221; command is so much easier than grabbing a paint brush when my house screams &#8220;Paint Me!.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2.  My lunch hour is my time to check on the relative success of my (and that includes my long list of contributors) morning&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>1.  No, I ask, &#8221; Do you mind if I post our conversation on my blog?&#8221; I&#8217;ve only been turned down once and that was by two female musicians  I met on the banks of the Ohio River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But you can&#8217;t post this unless you tell us how many of these items apply to you. Charlie Michael&#8217;s answers: 10. No. But if the stats were in plain English like pesky godson has checked your blog 79,5 times in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/07\/08\/are-you-addicted-to-blogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pesky-godson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}