It’s been over 2 years since I have tapped the keys to post on my blog.\u00a0 I really can’t believe it has been that long.<\/p>\n
My last blog post was “Blogging takes courage” (Look down to read more.\u00a0 I was able to import some of the posts from my old blog)<\/strong><\/p>\n It was a good post, but not great enough to be the last thing I had to say about blogging.\u00a0 So, today marks the day I am coming back from my blog retirement.\u00a0 I hate to offer excuses, but after starting blogging in 2004, two years later I had pretty much run out of things to say.\u00a0 You see my first blog was about blogs and blogging.\u00a0 I think it was too narrow of a focus.\u00a0 Between struggling to find new things to discuss and having a losing battle with spammers, I had grown disenchanted.\u00a0 Which led to my hiatus for a few years.<\/p>\n But, I do miss it.\u00a0 I miss having a bit more space to ramble on than Twitter.\u00a0 My blog, although I share it with the world, is really my soapbox.\u00a0 It is my freedom to write whatever the heck I want.\u00a0 How often in life do we get that?<\/p>\n So, I welcome you to my marketing blog.\u00a0 Where I tell it like I see it.\u00a0 And, invite you to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I welcome you to my marketing blog. Where I tell it like I see it. And, invite you to do the same.<\/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":[8,24,9,137],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogging","tag-marketing","tag-soapbox","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxtconcepts.com\/srufo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}