{"id":28081,"date":"2018-02-13T02:35:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28081"},"modified":"2018-02-13T02:35:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:35:43","slug":"oh-time-flies-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28081","title":{"rendered":"Oh, how time flies for this blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blogging-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28083\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blogging-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blogging-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blogging-1.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine years ago today I introduced myself to those who follow blogs.<\/p>\n<p>It was Feb. 13, 2009 when I posted my first blog item. My intention was to give readers a chance to know just a little about yours truly.<\/p>\n<p>The blog actually appeared on the Amarillo Globe-News&#8217;s web site at first. I transferred it to High Plains Blogger after I left the Globe-News in August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I wrote then:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2009\/02\/introducing-me-john-kanelis\/<\/p>\n<p>I intended the blog then to focus mostly on local matters, as I was writing for the local newspaper and the posts were pertinent to issues the paper was covering at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t stay that way. I left the paper and then started commenting on a whole array of issues far beyond Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>I invited comment and community discussion then. I still do today.<\/p>\n<p>My entry into the blogosphere produced a fairly paltry response. I am not too proud to acknowledge that the increase in page views has been slow, steady slog. It&#8217;s a lot greater today than it was in 2009. It&#8217;s not sufficient to satisfy me. For that matter, I am convinced that I&#8217;ll never be totally satisfied with the volume of page views and unique visitors this blog attracts.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m like the salesman who earns a living based on the sales he produces. It&#8217;s never enough, right?<\/p>\n<p>I just felt compelled to look back briefly at the beginning of my blogging experience. I was doing it for my employer then. Now that I am no longer employed, my current blog posts are more pure. I am able to speak with greater clarity about my own world view.<\/p>\n<p>It still is more fun than I deserve.<\/p>\n<p>But, shoot, man! I won&#8217;t apologize for it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years ago today I introduced myself to those who follow blogs. It was Feb. 13, 2009 when I posted my first blog item. My intention was to give readers a chance to know just a little about yours truly. The blog actually appeared on the Amarillo Globe-News&#8217;s web site at first. I transferred it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, how time flies for this blogger<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13,14],"tags":[179,671,2122],"class_list":["post-28081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-agn-media","tag-blogosphere","tag-high-plains-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28084,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28081\/revisions\/28084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}