{"id":171,"date":"2015-01-02T04:51:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T04:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-01-14T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T08:16:32","slug":"why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Why not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always wondered how people who call themselves bloggers maintain their ability to write and get excited about their daily lives at such a constant rate.\u00a0It seems such a chore to talk about\u00a0your life as if you were dressed by little bluebirds every day\u00a0or as if you always had an opinion on everything.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Taking endless streams of photos of your own life that you\u2019ll have to upload everyday? I admire the discipline, but\u00a0I\u2019d never be comfortable with that.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if the thought was to present myself a certain way to quench someone else&#8217;s curiosity with a pretty picture of my life. Too tiring.<\/p>\n<p>But then I remember that it is considered a\u00a0<em>job<\/em>\u00a0for those people, and if that were my job, I think I&#8217;d probably kick ass at it with my own endless stream of photos and chirpiness and opinions. What a way to live.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a romantic thought to read the diaries that were never really meant for anyone else to read though. I started reading\u00a0Sylvia Plath\u2019s unabridged journal a few years ago and it made me dive right down into a deep depression\u00a0that I had to pull myself out of by stopping.\u00a0An \u2018irresistable fascination\u2019 is what <a title=\"Brain Pickings - Famous writers on keeping a diary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/09\/04\/famous-writers-on-keeping-a-diary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Popova<\/a> calls it\u00a0and I can relate.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s try to write for ourselves this year. And maybe about the regular day-to-day\u00a0things instead of just the ones that make me feel introspective and reflective!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always wondered how people who call themselves bloggers maintain their ability to write and get excited about their daily lives at such a constant rate.\u00a0It seems such a chore to talk about\u00a0your life as if you were dressed by little bluebirds every day\u00a0or as if you always had an opinion on everything. Taking endless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}