{"id":1432,"date":"2013-03-02T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:07:20","slug":"why-i-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Why I Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in another mini blog challenge. It&#8217;s only a 15 day challenge and you can post everyday or just once a week. The group is more author &#8211; publisher focused so I thought that I would read a few blogs there as I posted. &nbsp;The one catch is, your blog has to be &#8220;new&#8221; material or a past post &#8211; &#8220;improved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really must admit, I find it easier to post everyday than, let&#8217;s say, once a week or once a month. With a daily post, I get to write about all the little things that may get forgotten by the end of the week and definitely by the end of the month. It&#8217;s a little like creating a magical world where small things such as changing a wiper blade are elevated or &#8220;celebrated.&#8221; And suddenly these little things become important and my life doesn&#8217;t seem as hum-drum. Blogs also give a home to my pictures and push me to take more pictures, which is very therapeutic too.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjvkY_q3KUQhK2gmRlgD5h6YTWTxZ7VaVY19mb9la3Vtsr_25ADo76rDYxtpbaAnHmwrz5tEDTHsPaJqqwEUacDfwO9hn3aK34V6cEW0Q57hsJm05JF3whig7G7JDkFLHMyeb-P1w\/s320\/trees+with+snow.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjvkY_q3KUQhK2gmRlgD5h6YTWTxZ7VaVY19mb9la3Vtsr_25ADo76rDYxtpbaAnHmwrz5tEDTHsPaJqqwEUacDfwO9hn3aK34V6cEW0Q57hsJm05JF3whig7G7JDkFLHMyeb-P1w\/s320\/trees+with+snow.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">A pretty morning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nAnyway, this new challenge has asked &#8220;what is your favourite blog.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure that I have a favourite. I have a few that have come together better than others &#8211; we&#8217;ve all had times like that!! I now have the opportunity to go back to the ones that didn&#8217;t work out as well and improve them &#8211; more great therapy!<\/p>\n<p>I do have a blog that I refer to more often than others. It&#8217;s a very emotional one for me. I wrote it for Remembrance Day 2010. Here it is <a href=\"http:\/\/divineknits-infiknit.blogspot.ca\/2010\/11\/dulce-et-decorum-est-pro-patria-mori.html\">&#8220;Dulce Et Decorum Est &#8211; Pro Patria Mori.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one I improved for the writer&#8217;s challenge is <a href=\"http:\/\/divineknits-infiknit.blogspot.ca\/2013\/01\/a-calm-exterior.html\">A Calm Exterior<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s about renting one of those storage lockers and I added these paragraphs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #5d5d5d;, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 18px\">&#8220;In fact, as clean and organized as the building may seem, it is very eerie. I am usually on my own when I take things over to the unit. I rarely see anyone there. &nbsp;I really feel much safer, if a few people are loading or unloading their belongings, when I&#8217;m dropping off my &#8220;stuff.&#8221; At least, if I call for help, someone will hear me.<\/span><br \/>\n<br style=\"background-color: white;color: #5d5d5d;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 18px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #5d5d5d;, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 18px\">It&#8217;s the days when not a soul is around, that the halls moan. The void is pregnant with a fear, that slowly grows. I fumble with the lock. The shriek of the door as it opens, takes my breath. I drop a box of ornaments. The echo shatters on the far walls. Now, they know I&#8217;m here. I work quickly. My mind is so busy shutting out the horror, that I don&#8217;t see the shadow at first, it moves; I freeze.<\/span><br \/>\n<br style=\"background-color: white;color: #5d5d5d;font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 18px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #5d5d5d;, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 18px\">&#8220;Is everything alright?&#8221; a voice says.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #5d5d5d;, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 18px\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;Have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in another mini blog challenge. It&#8217;s only a 15 day challenge and you can post everyday or just once a week. The group is more author &#8211; publisher focused so I thought that I would read a few blogs there as I posted. &nbsp;The one catch is, your blog has to be &#8220;new&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}