{"id":71858,"date":"2012-07-06T22:38:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T06:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17172"},"modified":"2012-07-06T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T06:38:18","slug":"reflections-on-10-years-in-science-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/06\/reflections-on-10-years-in-science-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on 10 years in science blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking that I should post about what it&#8217;s been like being a blogger for 10 years. 1\/3 of my recollected life! (I recall fragments of being 3, but continuity of self starts somewhere at the end of my 4th year) Actually, <strong>I always assumed I would do this post in 2012 when I joined <em>ScienceBlogs<\/em>\u00a0in 2006 and realized I could turn this hobby\/sidelight into a source of semi-professional fulfillment.<\/strong> But now that the time is nigh (I started blogging in April 2002, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/\">the original Gene Expression<\/a> launched in June of 2002) I find myself procrastinating, ironic in light of the fact that blogging is often parodied by some as a form of procrastinating. I will say that whenever I have a &#8220;9-5&#8243; (or, in my case more often an 8:30 to 6:30 at minimum) I don&#8217;t ever write for the blog during those hours (if a post shows up in that period, it&#8217;s a feature called scheduling enabling that miracle, something obviously unknown to those readers who stupidly ask &#8220;why are you posting now\u00a0loser! Shouldn&#8217;t you be hittin&#8217; on bangin&#8217; chicks, like I am on Friday <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/210-would-not-bang\">nights<\/a>?&#8221;). So blogging is not a way procrastinate for &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/pmBMyiTLlgg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking that I should post about what it&#8217;s been like being a blogger for 10 years. 1\/3 of my recollected life! (I recall fragments of being 3, but continuity of self starts somewhere at the end of my 4th year) Actually, I always &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71858"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72126,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858\/revisions\/72126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}