{"id":3904,"date":"2004-03-15T19:35:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2004-03-15T19:35:21","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T19:35:21","slug":"gathering_infor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3904","title":{"rendered":"Gathering Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>People often ask me why I blog, and I can&#8217;t always explain it very well. But having to answer this question has made me think about it a lot. I used to think that I like to blog because I like to write and it give me an outlet for that creative urge. That&#8217;s true, but it is also true (as I have learned) that I like to do it because blogging has made me more aware of other bloggers. And the more blogs I read, the more I learn.<\/p>\n<p>For example, today I learned a trick from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\">Instapundit<\/a>: if Amazon has your lawn mower for sale (yes, they sell appliances) they may even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/014631.php\">have the manual for download<\/a>. Which is handy if you lose your manual, as Glenn Reynolds did. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ernietheattorney.net\/ernie_the_attorney\/2004\/03\/blogging_makes_.html\">Ernie The Attorney<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I know this has been true for me.  I&#8217;ve also found that I tend to blog things so that I&#8217;ll be able to go back and find the information at a later time.  It&#8217;s kind of like my backup brain for random information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often ask me why I blog, and I can&#8217;t always explain it very well. But having to answer this question has made me think about it a lot. I used to think that I like to blog because I like to write and it give me an outlet for that creative urge. That&#8217;s true, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}