{"id":1634,"date":"2010-10-20T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2010-10-20T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:59:13","slug":"communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have turned into a writing machine. A very long time ago writing was one of the farthest things away from what I thought I would enjoy doing. I think the teaching methods of early grade school (55 years ago) made writing seem like such a difficult craft. There wasn\u2019t any fun in doing it. \u00a0Today I can\u2019t believe, well I guess I do believe&#8230; I actually enjoy writing.<\/p>\n<p>Reading is such a fantastic human ability. We humans have been able to train our minds to recognize certain printing shapes as letters, words, thoughts, communication. I think it is one of the few key abilities that separate humans from animals.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs like this are the latest method of communication. The great number of these electronic communication outposts is staggering to my imagination. Sometimes I think everyone is writing and no one is reading. I keep adding to these pages even when I suspect there may be only an audience of one. That one is me.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of registered members on each of my blogs. Almost none of them post comments and I suspect most cannot even read English. That\u2019s because there is a large group of \u201cjoiners\u201d mostly from the old USSR portion of the world who register and never visit again. I can only imagine the purpose.<\/p>\n<p>All registering provides is the ability to post a comment and there are great working filters that keep out the spam comments. I also have to approve before a reply can be seen by others. It is basically a dead end for spammers.<\/p>\n<p>Registering does help me identify a few real folks. They almost always enter a real name and do come back again. There is a service called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS_(file_format)\" target=\"_blank\">RSS \u2013 Really Simple Syndication<\/a> \u00a0that will send you a notice when something new is posted here or someone makes a reply that gets posted. It saves checking in all the time to see what might be new. I recommend using RSS. Look for the RSS on the top right of the page. The items in the right column from my other blogs are actually automatically put there by an RSS feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have turned into a writing machine. A very long time ago writing was one of the farthest things away from what I thought I would enjoy doing. I think the teaching methods of early grade school (55 years ago) made writing seem like such a difficult craft. There wasn\u2019t any fun in doing it. \u00a0Today I can\u2019t believe, well I guess I do believe&#8230; I actually enjoy writing. Reading is such a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}