{"id":3598,"date":"2010-05-07T01:53:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T07:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2010-05-07T01:53:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T07:53:03","slug":"back-to-the-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/work\/back-to-the-grind\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the grind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have started posting over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.commercialappeal.com\/the_memphis_blog\/\">The Memphis Blog<\/a> again. <\/p>\n<p>The first thing I did when I decided to take a hiatus two months ago (prompted, mostly, by the fact that I have very little time to do blog cultivation during work hours now since the newsroom reorgnization, and I was spending a TON of hours at home doing for free what I should probably be getting paid to do) was unsubscribe from every Memphis blog feed that didn&#8217;t contribute anything meaningful to my life. That means I unsubscribed from <i>a lot<\/i> of blog feeds. <\/p>\n<p>The most daunting challenge I face now is making sure I am up to the task of resubscribing and wading through all that stuff again without letting it bog down my life like it did before, when I would go to a friend&#8217;s house after work to hang out, and then end up tabbing through Google Reader and making 4 a.m. posts about local reactions to news. While that may be super useful for our readers, it burned me out and fast.  <\/p>\n<p>I have got to find a good way to manage my time because I refuse to devote as many home hours to the blog as I did in year one of its existence. Seriously. You have to slog through <i>a lot<\/i> of shit to get to the pearls. I hope that&#8217;s not insulting. I feel like that&#8217;s pretty much the case for the entire internet. So here&#8217;s hoping I can do a better job this time around.<\/p>\n<p>If you get bored, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.commercialappeal.com\/the_memphis_blog\/\">please come visit<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have started posting over at The Memphis Blog again. The first thing I did when I decided to take a hiatus two months ago (prompted, mostly, by the fact that I have very little time to do blog cultivation during work hours now since the newsroom reorgnization, and I was spending a TON of hours at home doing for free what I should probably be getting paid to do) was unsubscribe from every Memphis&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[195,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-W2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}