{"id":1668,"date":"2008-05-03T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T16:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2008-05-04T06:46:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T05:46:15","slug":"this-is-all-getting-really-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/03\/this-is-all-getting-really-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"This is all getting really boring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the alcohol, the drugs, the neverending nights of feral sex, the uninspired blogging&#8230; it gets old, really.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, so maybe not the booze, drugs and sex part. But the blogging part: definitely. I don&#8217;t mean the part about writing inane crap that nobody in their right mind should care about, in between two intense navel-staring sessions. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll get tired of that part any time soon (I&#8217;m trying though). I mean, the sterile format that this blog has come to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, trust me, I am very aware of it. Sure, I have many excuses as to why my posting rate has dwindled to the levels of Bangladesh&#8217;s strawberry production on a bad monsoon year&#8230; Work, life, love (or pursuit thereof), happiness (idem) etc. But we all know there&#8217;s more to it. Truth be told, blogging here bores me, most of the time. There are a couple reasons for that, chiefly among them are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This blog started out on the wrong foot.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I decided to open my first self-hosted online space, it started as a bastard mix of for-friends-only (&#8220;hey guys, long time no see&#8221;) news reports and travel-journal (&#8220;lookee all the whacky things they have here&#8221;)&#8230; Both rather boring genres in the long run, neither something I really felt like doing much. But I have been pulled toward these roots ever since.<\/p>\n<li><strong>It is read by all the wrong people.<\/strong><br \/>\nQuite expectedly (although I originally never intended it to be), this has become the place where all people who either have invested some DNA into me, or were court-ordered to stay at least a continent away, come to get their life update on Dave. Knowing that both your genitors (hi Mum! hi Dad!), extended family, past love interests (and potentiall <em>future<\/em> ones) are all reading this, puts a serious cap on any attempt at spontaneity.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>And therefore&#8230; I write elsewhere.<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, I know, it hurts, but I have been seeing other people. In other locales, other languages even. Usually with completely different style and contents. Don&#8217;t even try to search the web: believe me you won&#8217;t find it. Those other writings are all that this isn&#8217;t: personal, fun, hyperbolic, unauthentic, uncensored etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Then why bother?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good question. I suppose because this still serves a purpose for some writings, in some contexts. Also because I hate giving up. And closing that blog before I turn 50 would feel like giving up.<\/p>\n<p>But things need to change. Not sure what, but they do. <\/p>\n<p>Still working on details. I technically have about 10 days before the official 5 year anniversary of this blog. Do not expect grand announcement or sudden changes, just be warned. <\/p>\n<p>Sorta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you think? I mean, the alcohol, the drugs, the neverending nights of feral sex, the uninspired blogging&#8230; it gets old, really. Alright, so maybe not the booze, drugs and sex part. But the blogging part: definitely. I don&#8217;t mean the part about writing inane crap that nobody in their right mind should care about, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-too-much-caffeine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}