{"id":272,"date":"2007-08-19T00:12:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T00:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=272"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:14:02","slug":"thought-for-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started blogging to share some ideas, reach out into the void and perhaps try to fill one. There&#8217;s lots more to say but I&#8217;ve so little time to say it anymore. That&#8217;s not really a complaint, just an observation. I wonder what the blogging demographic is. The characteristics of the most prolific and compelling bloggers. It seems they&#8217;re looking for something. Perhaps the classic human &#8220;belonging&#8221; that drives us all. I wonder if they&#8217;re lonely&#8230;<br \/>\nOne of the things that&#8217;s bothered me over the past few months is that I no longer feel free to blog about whatever comes to mind. I think what really bugged me was the call from the local radio station about my pre-election post. It all seemed to miss the point. I felt like I&#8217;d strayed from the cosy barnyard of my personal musings into the mass media zoo, all meaning lost in the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started blogging to share some ideas, reach out into the void and perhaps try to fill one. There&#8217;s lots more to say but I&#8217;ve so little time to say it anymore. That&#8217;s not really a complaint, just an observation. I wonder what the blogging demographic is. The characteristics of the most prolific and compelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21876,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/21876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}