{"id":5894,"date":"2016-09-23T23:17:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T22:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2016-09-25T13:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T12:48:26","slug":"a-positive-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/a-positive-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Positive Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my humble opinion, everybody should have a blog! I suppose you could consider this the contemporary equivalent that everybody should write a novel. While the barriers to getting a book written and published have reduced in recent times, it is still far easier to setup a free blog and be up and running within a matter of minutes.<\/p> \r\n<p>Although there are now similar short forms of user generated content such as Instagram and Twitter, nothing can beat a long winded post to cover every possible detail. Many friends (although mainly focused upon a group of ex colleagues) have started blogs, somewhat inspired by my own. Most last a few months and then die a sudden death. My greatest proteg\u00e9 (if she will allow me to be so bold) is <a href=\"http:\/\/startrekkingwithkodakkirky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha<\/a>, living and working in the Southern Hemisphere. She has written some deep honest posts about migrating to Hobbit country and starting a new life. I am so grateful she has kept writing, so I can keep up to date on all her adventures, both good and bad.<\/p>\r\n<p>While my dear friend Fred has dabbled in blogging previously, his new political blog over at <a href=\"http:\/\/equalityexpress.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Equality Express<\/a> is a tour de force on so many levels. In the current climate where the name of our country &#8216;United Kingdom&#8217; might seem rather ironic, I believe it is important to make sure we understand what is happening in Westminster and the impact it has on our daily lives. I hope Fred keeps up with the blogging, there are so many topics we should reconsider and seek out the truth cutting through all the spin!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my humble opinion, everybody should have a blog! I suppose you could consider this the contemporary equivalent that everybody should write a novel. While the barriers to getting a book written and published have reduced in recent times, it is still far easier to setup a free blog and be up and running within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}