{"id":3471,"date":"2014-03-11T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2014-03-11T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:57:07","slug":"the-tao-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/11\/the-tao-of-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tao of Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh I fall into the trap. I spend every morning and every evening checking my Feedly RSS feeds and reading many awesome blogs. Lately I&#8217;ve been reading a few who apologize for not having blogged in a while and I start to feel it. Holy cow! I haven&#8217;t blogged in a while! I need to write a blog post!<\/p>\n<p>But you know what? If I have nothing to say, or more accurately, if all I&#8217;m going through hasn&#8217;t coalesced into words then I don&#8217;t push it. It isn&#8217;t going to work anyway. <\/p>\n<p>I call that the Tao of Blogging. I write a post when it&#8217;s time. Not before and not after. So when I feel that I need to blog or should write another blog I have to stop and ask myself, &#8220;is it because it&#8217;s time or is it because of some external pressure?&#8221; If it&#8217;s because of some external pressure then I&#8217;m working on being okay not forcing myself to write a new post.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s time, then the blog post flows freely. Sometimes a post flows freely then I stop and have to finish it later. That tends to feel more productive. Sometimes I have a few posts come out and then I do that cool things of scheduling them to come out in a few days! That&#8217;s so hard to do because I want to publish them all now.<\/p>\n<p>But when it&#8217;s not time to publish, I have to stop sweating it. It&#8217;ll come when it&#8217;s time and when I&#8217;m ready. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh I fall into the trap. I spend every morning and every evening checking my Feedly RSS feeds and reading many awesome blogs. Lately I&#8217;ve been reading a few who apologize for not having blogged in a while and I start to feel it. Holy cow! I haven&#8217;t blogged in a while! I need to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/11\/the-tao-of-blogging\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[50,3424,12,2225,3426,1209,3423,3427,3425],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ednews","tag-blog","tag-blogged","tag-blogs","tag-cool-things","tag-external-pressure","tag-few-days","tag-holy-cow","tag-scheduling","tag-tao","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}