{"id":3033,"date":"2020-01-02T01:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T06:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2019-12-14T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:12:44","slug":"now-that-ive-said-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/01\/now-that-ive-said-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That I&#8217;ve Said It&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yet another reason that writing in a weblog or a paper log is helpful.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find many benefits to writing in a log whether that be in a paper book or in an Internet thing like this one. One benefit is that whatever thought I write is now out of my head. One cliche is, &#8220;I got that off my chest.&#8221; That is a good explanation of why I have done this blog for over a decade and written in journals for longer than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now that I&#8217;ve said or written it, I can move on. The weight is gone, and all the other cliches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simple. True. Powerful. I can write it in a private book that only I see. I can write it here on the Internetworks where maybe a few will see it. No matter. It is out, and I move onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try it. Vent frustrations. Sing joys. Whatever. Now that I&#8217;ve said it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Yet another reason that writing in a weblog or a paper log is helpful. I find many benefits to writing in a log whether that be in a paper book or in an Internet thing like this one. One benefit is that whatever thought I write is now out of my head. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,5],"tags":[131,137,128],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-notebook","category-writing","tag-journal","tag-notebook","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}