{"id":1266,"date":"2010-12-31T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2010-12-31T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:19:38","slug":"core-story-reverb10-day-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Core Story:  #reverb10 Day 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverb10.com\/december-31-core-story\/\">prompt<\/a>:  <em>What central story is at the core of you, and how do you share it with the world? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/5309812386\/\" title=\"No tree too big to climb by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5287\/5309812386_8da1210369.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"No tree too big to climb\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You see that tree over there?  One of these days I&#8217;m going to climb that tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Like my niece shown in the picture here, I&#8217;m always picking out the biggest trees to climb.  Other kids might find a low hanging branch on a sweet little crape myrtle and be done with it, but as for me, if there&#8217;s a bigger oak nearby, I&#8217;m going to worry around it until I think of a way to at least get a foothold on it.  Some might call that unrealistic.  I just like to think of it as imaginative.<\/p>\n<p>I am prone to flights of fancy.  That&#8217;s what makes me think I&#8217;m a writer.  That&#8217;s what makes me think I&#8217;m a photographer.  That&#8217;s what makes me think nothing is worth doing if it isn&#8217;t worth overdoing.<\/p>\n<p>This post completes my 2010 365 blog project.  I have not missed a day of blogging since January 1, 2010.  Some days I posted very little.  Some days I went wordless and posted only a photograph.  One day I think I posted something like &#8220;I have thirty seconds left to post something to my blog today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I did it.  I posted something to this blog every single day for the past 365 days.  I didn&#8217;t think I would.  I actually just set out to see how many days in a row I could post something to the blog without missing a day.  I thought I might make it six weeks or so.  When I surpassed that, I still threatened to quit fairly often up until the point that I realized I was three-quarters through a year.  Then the idea of finishing a complete year caught my fancy.  I was bound and determined to see it through.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know what I&#8217;ve proven.  Probably nothing.  But the blog in itself has been a pleasure to me.  I&#8217;m happy to say I&#8217;ve stuck it out.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last day I&#8217;m posting here to this particular blog, but if you come back tomorrow, you will still find me here.  I&#8217;m going to rebuild the blog tomorrow (or at least start rebuilding).  I&#8217;ve been planning to do a reinstall on WordPress for some time because I have some corruptions in my current installation.  I just wanted to finish my year first.  I don&#8217;t think I will have to miss a day of blogging in order to reinstall, but catastrophes sometimes happen, and I didn&#8217;t want to take a chance on disrupting my year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 blog will be archived in its entirety.  I may never finish another 365 blog in my life.  I want to keep this one on display just in case.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we move on.  Tomorrow I will build a new blog and set out to see how many days in a row I can post something to it.  I don&#8217;t know why.  I don&#8217;t know why I pick any given tree to climb.  Because it&#8217;s there, I suppose.  And because it tickles my fancy to think I can.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my story, and I believe I&#8217;ll just stick to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s prompt: What central story is at the core of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflecting","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}