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(What a good looking kid!)<\/p>\n
Where has 25 years gone?<\/p>\n
25 years ago, and for many years along the way, I was developing this website in Notepad. We were hardcore in those days. Dream Weaver? No thanks! I like making HTML errors. Now we have this fancy WordPress machine to crank out blog posts.<\/p>\n
But the funny thing is that I post way less than I did back in the day. I guess it’s that way with most things. You start out hot and really into it. Then it fades over time. However, I have been thinking about writing more regularly again. At least for my own sake. Now that I am 25 years older than I was in 2000, dementia is more a possibility than a joke. I should write more to exercise my brain. And to keep track of things in case I forget them. “Bloggingsam… The Golden Years”<\/p>\n
I don’t have any readers though. “Build it and they will come.” Yeah, maybe. People used to sign up to be on my email list years ago. I bet I could dig up copies of those old email notifications I used to send out. Hold on. I gotta go search my old Yahoo email account. Good thing I never delete emails.<\/p>\n
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You know what? I found some emails from those old days. I don’t want to share any of them. I was kind of obnoxious and vain back then. I found an email in which someone asked to be removed from my email list because they found me to be “unreliable” and “tasteless.” They never knew when they got an email from me whether my content would be worth their time. So, I replied with an obnoxious email. That’s embarrassing. <\/p>\n
So let’s just move on. Maybe I’ll do more posts. Maybe I won’t. Maybe my website and I will simply fade out into the greyness of dementia and not worry about it.<\/p>\n
If you are interested, here is my first post from December 30, 2000: Snow and Chinese Food<\/a>. Beware of tastelessness and obnoxiousness along the way if you decide to read more posts in the big pile of this website. There may be a few things worth your time. Then again, one man’s tastelessness is another man’s time worthiness. The eye of the beholder and all that.<\/p>\n To anyone who ever reads this post, Thanks for noticing me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (What a good looking kid!) Where has 25 years gone? 25 years ago, and for many years along the way, I was developing this website in Notepad. We were hardcore in those days. Dream Weaver? No thanks! I like making HTML errors. Now we have this fancy WordPress machine to crank out blog posts. But … Continue reading “And Now We Turn 25”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11172,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions\/11172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}