{"id":2565,"date":"2008-07-18T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:54:52","slug":"the-problem-with-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/07\/18\/the-problem-with-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well first, it takes time and energy, which are increasingly scarce for me.<\/p>\n<p>Second, and more importantly to me, it creates an often one-sided relationship with people. It puts people in a spectator role and removes incentive to connect directly with me, because they already know what&#8217;s up in my life. <\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t provide the most fulfilling relationships for me. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so exhausted that I have few words and less energy. I go to bed at 8:00 p.m., am unconscious immediately, then arise at 5:30 a.m. (or whenever Bean wakes), and feel exhausted all day. I think that the energy required to be a mother &#8212; the vigilance, the constant availability &#8212; just calls for more energy than a good night&#8217;s sleep can provide.<\/p>\n<p>I have less to say, and less desire to share in the blog what little I do have to say. I may be evolving out of blogging. Or at least headed toward a hiatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well first, it takes time and energy, which are increasingly scarce for me. Second, and more importantly to me, it creates an often one-sided relationship with people. It puts people in a spectator role and removes incentive to connect directly with me, because they already know what&#8217;s up in my life. That doesn&#8217;t provide the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13913,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}