{"id":31926,"date":"2018-08-22T03:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31926"},"modified":"2018-08-22T03:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T03:14:15","slug":"664-days-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31926","title":{"rendered":"664 days and counting"},"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\/08\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31927\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/blogging-e1484908296381-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/blogging-e1484908296381.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blog is distributed on Word Press, a fairly common platform for bloggers to send their myriad messages into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve gotten a bit of interesting news from the folks who run Word Press. They tell me I&#8217;ve submitted blog entries from High Plains Blogger for 664 consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p>That means I&#8217;m closing in on two years of daily submissions from High Plains Blogger.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it almost seems longer than that. I&#8217;ll rely on Word Press to know the facts on this kind of thing; they keep track of it far more than I do. Perhaps I missed a day back in 2016 for reasons I cannot remember.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could scroll back through the archives to confirm it.<\/p>\n<p>Aww, never mind!<\/p>\n<p>A friend told me recently he was astounded at the prolific pace with which I write blog entries for this forum. I told him what I&#8217;ve told\u00a0 you already here: It&#8217;s what I have done for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>A family member of mine &#8212; someone who disagrees with me politically &#8212; just recently made the same observation. I told him that I cannot stop writing these blog entries because, as I mentioned to him, they provide a form of relaxation for me. I find writing them almost <em>therapeutic<\/em> in nature. Indeed, with so much grist pouring out of Washington, D.C., since about, oh, Nov. 8, 2016, I have no shortage of material on which to comment\/pontificate\/vent\/rant &#8230; whatever you want to call it.<\/p>\n<p>So, with 664 consecutive days in the bank, I plan to keep pounding out these missives.<\/p>\n<p>As I have mentioned perhaps a time or three too many already, I am living the dream.<\/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>This blog is distributed on Word Press, a fairly common platform for bloggers to send their myriad messages into the world. Lately, I&#8217;ve gotten a bit of interesting news from the folks who run Word Press. They tell me I&#8217;ve submitted blog entries from High Plains Blogger for 664 consecutive days. That means I&#8217;m closing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">664 days and counting<\/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":[10],"tags":[670,2122,6813],"class_list":["post-31926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-blogging","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-word-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31926","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=31926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31928,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31926\/revisions\/31928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}