{"id":364,"date":"2002-05-21T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2002-05-22T03:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=364"},"modified":"2002-05-21T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2002-05-22T03:02:54","slug":"deer-in-the-headlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/05\/21\/deer-in-the-headlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer in the headlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at one of those awkward passes, where I&#8217;ve got so many things lined up to do that I&#8217;m at an impasse where to start.  I&#8217;ve just been sitting here frozen in front of the keyboard, my mind swimming with the daunting array of tasks ahead of me.  Time to kick my butt into gear.<\/p>\n<p>One of those things is to get some blogging flowing again.  I&#8217;ve always leaned towards blogging only when I have something to say rather than forcing a regular blurb out perhaps before one is ready.  There&#8217;s a middle ground to that though, I suspect, where I encourage myself to seek blog inspiration in order to whet my appetite for a good rant or discourse, thus keeping up the flow.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s my duty to <a href=\"http:\/\/tres_producers.blogspot.com\/2002_05_19_tres_producers_archive.html#76816861\">link to <\/a>a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/\">people<\/a> too, and quote lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teare.com\">stuff <\/a>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve all <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">seen elsewhere <\/a>anyhow, lest I get <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0107946\/2002\/05\/20.html#a28\">branded<\/a> a narcissistic snob by the <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2002\/05\/21#andTheWinnerIsBloghole\">demablogues<\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unchartedshores.com\/blogger\/archive\/2002_05_19_archive3.html#85106438\">contend <\/a>that there are right and wrong ways to blog, and those who open their blog at the little end are deserving of <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2002\/05\/21#andTheWinnerIsBloghole\">pejorative labels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at one of those awkward passes, where I&#8217;ve got so many things lined up to do that I&#8217;m at an impasse where to start. I&#8217;ve just been sitting here frozen in front of the keyboard, my mind swimming with the daunting array of tasks ahead of me. Time to kick my butt into gear. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}