{"id":5510,"date":"2009-10-06T06:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2009-10-06T06:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:54:39","slug":"counterintuitive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5510","title":{"rendered":"Counterintuitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people ask me &#8220;how do I make it as a blogger?&#8221; (which, admittedly, doesn&#8217;t happen every day &#8211; but it <em>does <\/em>happen, pinky swear), my response is always some variation of &#8220;write something every day&#8221;.\u00a0 Get into the discipline of writing <em>something<\/em> &#8211; a big magnum opus on your favorite topic, pictures of your cat, a quickie fisk of something you disagree with &#8211; <em>anything<\/em>.\u00a0 The discipline is what brings the improvement &#8211; <em>not <\/em>the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I direct you to one of the great unsung bloggers in the Twin Cities &#8211; and when I say &#8220;unsung&#8221;, that&#8217;s misleading, because Speed Gibson <em>has <\/em>an audience of discerning consumers, largely but not exclusively on the subject of education.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, he had a <a href=\"http:\/\/speedgibson.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1254629354.shtml\">S reminder for everyone on the right<\/a>; there are still surprises out there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We on the right might be hidebound ourselves in thinking the media will always wear the union label. But many of these reporters and editors have kids in school themselves, and must face some union reality themselves. Regardless, they&#8217;re generally good people. The lack of results despite decades of promises and billions in targeted programs may have finally left them with no other conclusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who is he talking about?<\/p>\n<p>Read the article.<\/p>\n<p>Which is the whole point of this article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people ask me &#8220;how do I make it as a blogger?&#8221; (which, admittedly, doesn&#8217;t happen every day &#8211; but it does happen, pinky swear), my response is always some variation of &#8220;write something every day&#8221;.\u00a0 Get into the discipline of writing something &#8211; a big magnum opus on your favorite topic, pictures of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","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=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}