{"id":37903,"date":"2019-07-12T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37903"},"modified":"2019-07-12T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:26:10","slug":"writing-a-blog-produces-occasional-out-of-body-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37903","title":{"rendered":"Writing a blog produces occasional out-of-body experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? Or even what you believe an actual such event would feel like?<\/p>\n

I get ’em on occasion writing this blog. I’ve been doing this since 2010, fulltime since 2012.<\/p>\n

Here’s what happens: I write something on High Plains Blogger and then publish it. I post these items on various social media, including Facebook. Someone comments on it. The initial comment usually is negative. Then someone responds — not to the blog, but to the initial responder. Then Responder No. 1 fires back at the antagonist; Responder No. 2 shoots back.<\/p>\n

Then it starts. Back and forth they go. Occasionally, someone else chimes in. Then perhaps a fourth, or fifth individual who happens to be part of my Facebook “friend” network will read these exchanges and decide to weigh in as well.<\/p>\n

Oh, boy. Sometimes it gets nasty. As in real personal. There’s a bit of name-calling at times.<\/p>\n

I think once or twice I have sought to intervene, usually via “private message” on whatever social medium I’m monitoring. I might tell one of the parties to cool it. Usually, though, I let it ride. I let the combatants have their say.<\/p>\n

Eventually one of them gives up. Not surrender, actually. Just decides he or she has had enough of the other person.<\/p>\n

Why mention this at all? It’s my way of acknowledging the deep divide that separates individuals or groups of individuals. There’s little I can do about it, short of not posting items that rile folks up. I can’t go there. I have this insatiable need to provide commentary that is sure to invoke the kind of out-of-body experiences I feel on occasion.<\/p>\n

I can’t help myself.<\/p>\n

For that I apologize. However, I’ll keep on going.<\/p>\n\n

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Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? Or even what you believe an actual such event would feel like? I get ’em on occasion writing this blog. I’ve been doing this since 2010, fulltime since 2012. Here’s what happens: I write something on High Plains Blogger and then publish it. I post these items on … Continue reading Writing a blog produces occasional out-of-body experiences<\/span> →<\/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":[1676,2122,4300],"class_list":["post-37903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-facebook","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903","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=37903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37904,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37903\/revisions\/37904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}