{"id":55730,"date":"2023-08-28T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55730"},"modified":"2023-08-28T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:03:21","slug":"blogging-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55730","title":{"rendered":"Blog performs priceless function"},"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\/2017\/08\/blogging_tips.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23623\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blogging_tips-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blogging_tips-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blogging_tips-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blogging_tips-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blogging_tips.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know already that I love this gig of writing a blog, so much so that I have just crossed the 700-day mark.<\/p>\n<p>Seven hundred consecutive days of posting a commentary on High Plains Blogger! I consider that a <em>big &#8230; deal<\/em>, if you get my drift.<\/p>\n<p>I get a particular question from time to time, which goes like this: <em>How are you able to write so frequently?\u00a0<\/em>My answer is that I do not know or why that it happens. I am prone to respond simply that &#8220;It&#8217;s what I do and it&#8217;s who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not boasting about it. I merely want to call attention to this streak because, in a manner that many of you will understand, it has served as a form of therapy for me since I experienced the worst day of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 3 came and went. The day began with my dear bride struggling to regain consciousness after suffering a grand mal seizure about six days earlier. The day ended with a phone call from the hospital telling me Kathy Anne had &#8220;just passed.&#8221; The glioblastoma lesion in her brain took her from us and it shattered many hearts.<\/p>\n<p>I have sought in the months since then to tell the story of my personal journey through this darkness. My family and I are going through it together, but as a form of therapy, writing about this passage has given me strength. It helps clear my head &#8230; along with the road trips I have been able to take with my trusted companion, Toby the Puppy.<\/p>\n<p>I likely would have continued this streak without the tragedy that befell us but since we have been dealt this hand, I am continuing to play it for as long as it is reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank you for reading it and sharing it when the spirit moves you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seven hundred consecutive days<\/em> of blogging means a great deal to me. It happens to mean even more as I am able to continue to use this forum as a guide path that leads me toward the light.<\/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>You know already that I love this gig of writing a blog, so much so that I have just crossed the 700-day mark. Seven hundred consecutive days of posting a commentary on High Plains Blogger! I consider that a big &#8230; deal, if you get my drift. I get a particular question from time to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog performs priceless function<\/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":[9,11],"tags":[670,2122,10124],"class_list":["post-55730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-medical-news","tag-blogging","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-kathy-anne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55730","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=55730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55732,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55730\/revisions\/55732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}