One of my hobbies over the past fifteen years or so has been trying to get some of my favorite bloggers from the halcyon days of Minnesota blogmongery to stay, if only a little bit, in the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a few – Johnny Roosh, Bogus Diane – success was fleeting. But it was great while it lasted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With others – not gonna name names – other priorities called. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With still others – Mr. D, First Ringer – well, it worked, we found a niche, and they still do some writing in this space. My deal’s always been “write whenever the spirit moves you” – and they do. And for that I’m grateful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And one whose writing I’ve been missing for well over a decade, since he retired Peace Like a River<\/em>, is Jeff Kouba<\/strong>, one of my favorite writers in a medium and “scene” full of great writers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And after at least a decade of trying, we’re going to fix that. Jeff starts writing at SITD later today. As with Mr. D and Ringer, it’s all whenever he feels like writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And I’ll be thrilled to see him back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check back later this morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n [1] “But what about Joe Doakes?” He was, and remains, a reader who emails ideas that work as posts. Lots and lots of ’em. But he doesn’t want to be on the “staff”. Hey, material is material. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my hobbies over the past fifteen years or so has been trying to get some of my favorite bloggers from the halcyon days of Minnesota blogmongery to stay, if only a little bit, in the game. With a few – Johnny Roosh, Bogus Diane – success was fleeting. But it was great while […]<\/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-81173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81173","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=81173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81176,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81173\/revisions\/81176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}