{"id":2823,"date":"2018-11-20T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2018-11-20T06:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:55:10","slug":"once-more-unto-the-blog-dear-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/once-more-unto-the-blog-dear-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Once More Unto the Blog, Dear Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been away from the blog for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve noticed; maybe you haven&#8217;t. Maybe you care; maybe you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m back, and it&#8217;s back. Or we&#8217;re back. (<em>Or something!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much of a plan or a purpose, just things I still want to say and this handy place to say them. Maybe more people will come visit; maybe they won&#8217;t. I&#8217;m going to try not to worry about it too much.<\/p>\n<p>As my high school English teacher wrote in my yearbook, &#8220;Our beach is a lonely beach, and few come to see our castles. But, on we build.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/84\/Sand_castle%2C_Cannon_Beach.jpg\/640px-Sand_castle%2C_Cannon_Beach.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\" style=\"font-size: 65%;\"><em>(Image: &#8220;Sand Castle, Cannon Beach,&#8221; by Curt Smith, from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stop by and visit anytime!<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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Maybe you&#8217;ve noticed; maybe you haven&#8217;t. Maybe you care; maybe you don&#8217;t. But I&#8217;m back, and it&#8217;s back. Or we&#8217;re back. (Or something!) I don&#8217;t have much of a plan or a purpose, just things I still want to say \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/once-more-unto-the-blog-dear-friends\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[387],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}