{"id":737,"date":"2005-01-22T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/22\/some-things-blogging-does\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:16","slug":"some-things-blogging-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/22\/some-things-blogging-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Things Blogging Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Euan from <a href=\"http:\/\/theobvious.typepad.com\/blog\/\">The Obvious?<\/a> provided a peek into a post that asks the question, &#8220;What happens when you replace the word blogging with thinking?&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many bloggers (me included) have raved in our blogs how the simple act of writing a blog does great things to your life and your mind. There\u00c2\u2019s also some big criticisms of blogging being aired in various places too. I&#8217;d like to talk about 6 benefits of blogging here and present some counters to the arguments that surround those benefits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging helps you to notice what you are noticing in the world and leads you to question why that is.\n<li>Blogging tests your commitment to what you believe your passions are.\n<li>Blogging expands your own and other people&#8217;s minds and ultimately contributes to the learning and development of society.\n<li>Blogging removes boundaries and traditional sources of power and introduces a new currency: your thoughts.\n<li>Blogging is about thinking, not necessarily journalism.\n<li>Blogs are the chaff not the wheat.  What you post in your blog isn&#8217;t necessarily the most important thing, it\u00c2\u2019s that you&#8217;ve done some thinking.<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;Claire Chaundy, <a href=\"http:\/\/clairechaundy.typepad.com\/organised_chaos\/2005\/01\/what_happens_wh.html\">Organised Chaos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A further discussion of each point can be found at Claire&#8217;s blog by clicking on the link.  Great stuff to ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euan from The Obvious? provided a peek into a post that asks the question, &#8220;What happens when you replace the word blogging with thinking?&#8221; Many bloggers (me included) have raved in our blogs how the simple act of writing a blog does great things to your life and your mind. There\u00c2\u2019s also some big criticisms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12699,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/12699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}