{"id":1870,"date":"2010-04-14T09:17:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2010-04-14T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T15:17:46","slug":"today-is-my-4-year-blogging-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-is-my-4-year-blogging-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is My 4-year Blogging Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago today I began blogging.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even know what it was, much before I started doing it.\u00a0 But looking back on four years, I have some reflections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m glad I started because <strong>starting was the hardest part<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m <strong>glad I use WordPress<\/strong> because WordPress is easy to update.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m <strong>glad I put my observations and thoughts down on paper<\/strong>.\u00a0 Now I have them chronicled; not only for others to read and benefit by, but for me to remember what I was thinking four years ago, three years ago, or even two months ago.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s <strong>allowed me to contribute to the conversation <\/strong>about life, love and relationships.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s <strong>allowed me to dispel a lot of weirdness<\/strong> that goes on in the name of God by giving my take on spirituality.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s allowed me to <strong>make contact with people <\/strong>I would have never known all across the country.<\/li>\n<li>It allows me to <strong>inspire others<\/strong> and extend my influence for good.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a <strong>discipline that causes me to think<\/strong>, crystallize my ideas, and put them down, and communicate.<\/li>\n<li>It allows me to <strong>be a part of the solution<\/strong>, not just curse the darkness and the problems.<\/li>\n<li>It may <strong>serve as a spark for an idea<\/strong> or creative solution to someone who reads it.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s allowed me to <strong>consciously avoid being negative<\/strong> and attacking people in print, because there have been oh so many times that I\u2019ve wanted to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few of the ideas of why blogging in the past four years has been good for me.\u00a0 I think I am a <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/scoopdog.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/blogging.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"145\" \/>better person, and I\u2019ve been fortunate to think and process information and ideas rather than just letting them be dismissed and pass on by.\u00a0 <strong>My goal in the next four years is to continue blogging only those things that are helpful to my readers<\/strong>: things that help inspire; ideas and observations that may make life a little clearer, and choices a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing today that you are glad you started four years ago?\u00a0 Or are you still \u201cplanning on\u201d getting started?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago today I began blogging.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even know what it was, much before I started doing it.\u00a0 But looking back on four years, I have some reflections: I\u2019m glad I started because starting was the hardest part. I\u2019m glad I use WordPress because WordPress is easy to update. I\u2019m glad I put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-is-my-4-year-blogging-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today is My 4-year Blogging Anniversary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}