{"id":3184,"date":"2023-05-02T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2023-05-02T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:15:15","slug":"to-blog-or-not-to-blog-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/to-blog-or-not-to-blog-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Blog, or Not to Blog, that is the Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether &#8217;tis nobler on the Net to suffer the slings and arrows of outraged trolls, or to take arms against a sea of opinions and by opposing refute them &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2062\/0643\/products\/DVD_IN2_To_Be_or_Not_to_Be_720x.jpg\" alt=\"Hamlet's famous soliloquy, 'To be or not to be'\" width=\"599\" height=\"934\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\" style=\"font-size: 65%;\"><em>(Hamlet&#8217;s famous soliloquy.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I wonder whether I should relegate this site to the dustbin of the Internet archives &#8212; <em>they say the Internet is forever, after all<\/em> &#8212; or whether I should start back again, tossing out the oddball ideas I&#8217;ve collected. I literally have tens of thousands of words of half-formed blog post ideas collected in a Word document. Some of them might even be decent.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I should get them out in the open and out of my head. I even &#8212; gasp! &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/pay-no-attention-to-the-blogger-behind-the-curtain\/\">blogged about that before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I should keep them to myself, that nobody&#8217;s much interested. (Sometimes I think that last bit doesn&#8217;t matter.)<\/p>\n<p>(Sigh.) 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