{"id":46,"date":"2002-01-29T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2002-01-29T17:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/01\/why-there-are-blogs-\/"},"modified":"2002-01-29T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2002-01-29T17:47:27","slug":"why-there-are-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/01\/29\/why-there-are-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why there are blogs &#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI invented the personal web log form back in 1994 in order to bring about the counter-spin <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2061236\">Mickey Kaus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/index.php?dish_inc=archives\/2002_01_27_dish_archive.html#9136491\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a> applied to the New York Times yesterday. Now I can die knowing that the world is a better place for my having been here, not that I&#8217;m planning to, although a vacation would be nice. Seriously, go read these stories &#8211; all the other blog material up today is crap, except for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morethanzerosum.com\/archives\/000832.html#000832\">Andrew Hofer&#8217;s <\/a>piece on stock analysts.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I invented the personal web log form back in 1994 in order to bring about the counter-spin Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan applied to the New York Times yesterday. Now I can die knowing that the world is a better place for my having been here, not that I&#8217;m planning to, although a vacation would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/01\/29\/why-there-are-blogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why there are blogs &#8212;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}