{"id":297,"date":"2006-03-21T21:54:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2006-03-21T21:54:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T21:54:59","slug":"blog-my-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/297","title":{"rendered":"blog my read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still really surprised when people tell me they read my blog. It happens somewhat regularly in conversation. I&#8217;ll just be talking to someone and they&#8217;ll drop in the fact that they&#8217;ve been reading this site. It catches me off guard every time, and I stop and wonder how I should react. Generally I just say something like, &#8220;Awesome!&#8221; or &#8220;Cool, thanks!&#8221; But I never really talk with them about anything in particular, in fact I normally move on to some other subject. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not comfortable with this medium. There are tons of things I&#8217;d like to talk about here, but can&#8217;t seem to find a way to do it. I would love to talk about job prospects, school prospects, personal life, random thoughts, etc., but these things are all so disconnected. How do I balance all of the thoughts that I want to get down with the fact that I&#8217;d prefer a somewhat normal theme to my writing?<\/p>\n<p>The format to this blog will change soon&#8230;I can feel it. Just when you (and I for that matter) least expect it. Anyway, to all you readers out there, please keep reading. I appreciate it. And I die for comments, in person and in digital form. So keep that up. Ok, enough kissing your ass&#8230;how great am I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still really surprised when people tell me they read my blog. It happens somewhat regularly in conversation. I&#8217;ll just be talking to someone and they&#8217;ll drop in the fact that they&#8217;ve been reading this site. 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