I reckon that a large part of the popularity of Blogging is because it addresses a human need. To say something- its the old “Write a letter syndrome” brought into the 21st century. It didn’t matter if you posted the letter or not. Writing the letter was the thing; it concentrated the mind, focussed your thoughts and the act of creating the letter was in a sense therapeutic. You got it off your chest.<\/p>\n
So as well as the web developing and my full time job, I’m also doing three reasonably frequently updated blogs ( Mensan.Eu<\/a> – a blog for mensans- interesting things about Mensa ), this blog and the Squidoo Mensa lens<\/a>. My old website is at www.dhbolton.com<\/a> but slowly rising from the ruins is a new look, xhtml validating site at www.davidhbolton.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I reckon that a large part of the popularity of Blogging is because it addresses a human need. To say something- its the old “Write a letter syndrome” brought into the 21st century. It didn’t matter if you posted the letter or not. Writing the letter was the thing; it concentrated the mind, focussed your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}