{"id":2256,"date":"2008-03-13T05:03:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2008-03-13T05:03:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T10:03:53","slug":"why-im-so-friggin-happy-all-the-farging-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2256","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m So Friggin&#8217; Happy All The Farging Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/technology\/2008\/03\/can-you-blog-aw.html\">better than Prozac<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/03\/03\/2178512.htm\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">a new study<\/font><\/a> by researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/www.swinburne.edu.au\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne<\/font><\/a> who were looking into the psychological benefits of blogging, bloggers tend to feel a greater sense of connectedness to a particular community, and feel that they have a larger social support system behind them compared with those who do not blog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, they never asked me, but I&#8217;m here to testify.<\/p>\n<p>For one example &#8211; I don&#8217;t\u00a0know <em>how\u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;d have gotten through 2003, with its\u00a0unemployment and other difficulties,\u00a0had I not had this\u00a0blog.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Viewed in this light, blogging could be prescribed as a potentially cheaper (and drugs-free) way to help people overcome a feeling of isolation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.\u00a0 Indeed, given some of the stalker-like behavior you can encounter out there, it can make you <em>long <\/em>for isolation&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blogging has been dismissed as a\u00a0 narcissistic pursuit&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;but only by the talentless and stupid.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Am I being tongue-in-cheek?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Discuss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging; it&#8217;s better than Prozac: According to a new study by researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne who were looking into the psychological benefits of blogging, bloggers tend to feel a greater sense of connectedness to a particular community, and feel that they have a larger social support system behind them compared with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}