{"id":54954,"date":"2023-05-20T02:31:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54954"},"modified":"2023-05-20T02:31:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T02:31:34","slug":"high-plains-blogger-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54954","title":{"rendered":"Blog passes milestone"},"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\/2020\/02\/blogging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41149\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/blogging-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/blogging-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/blogging.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boasting is not my forte, but I do feel the tug to brag &#8230; but only just a little.<\/p>\n<p>High Plains Blogger just passed a significant milestone. My most recent post was the 601st consecutive day I have been able to post a commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t stand and applaud, please.<\/p>\n<p>Just understand that writing this blog is important to me. I wrote opinions on all manner of issues for many years during my full-time career as a newspaper journalist. My career ended more than a decade ago, but my desire to keep writing has remained intact.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I want to share this bit of good news &#8230; at least it&#8217;s good news to me.<\/p>\n<p>I am asked on occasion: <em>How do you write so often?<\/em> The best answer I can find is: <em>It&#8217;s what I do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no special talent. I can&#8217;t identify any truly great work in all the items I have posted since I began writing this blog in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I simply take great joy in posting these musings. It keeps me alert. I intend to keep High Plains Blogger active for as long as I can string sentences together.<\/p>\n<p>More good news? I am still willing and able.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Boasting is not my forte, but I do feel the tug to brag &#8230; but only just a little. High Plains Blogger just passed a significant milestone. My most recent post was the 601st consecutive day I have been able to post a commentary. Don&#8217;t stand and applaud, please. Just understand that writing this blog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54954\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog passes milestone<\/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":[2122,2587],"class_list":["post-54954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54954","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=54954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54955,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54954\/revisions\/54955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}