{"id":370,"date":"2008-01-16T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:51:48","slug":"middle-of-next-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/middle-of-next-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle of the Next Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, my husband told a cab driver to stop &#8220;in the middle of the next blog, um, block!&#8221; We&#8217;ve got blogs on the brain, especially me, because I&#8217;m knee-deep in unanswered memes. I better get moving. <a href=\"http:\/\/womanwardrobeneeds.blogspot.com\/\">Wardrobe Oxygen<\/a> tagged me with this one, as did Diana of <a href=\"http:\/\/sofashon.com\/\">So Fash&#8217;On<\/a> a while ago.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1. What is the Story Behind the Name of Your Blog?<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>I&#8217;m Wendy Brandes. I design jewelry. Hence, Wendy Brandes Jewelry. <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/happy-delurking-week-eben-shapiro.html\">As I noted recently<\/a>, I may not have done a spectacular job of promoting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\">jewelry<\/a>, but at least <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/latex\">latex leggings<\/a> are getting the attention they deserve. Actually, the latex might be helping because every day about 20 people click to enlarge a picture of me in shiny leggings only to be deviously transported to my jewelry site instead.  I added &#8220;Wear What You  Want&#8221; to the header because I am irritated by self-appointed &#8220;Fashion Police&#8221; who persecute anyone who shows a little creativity. Obviously, &#8220;Wear What You Want&#8221; doesn&#8217;t apply to every situation. You shouldn&#8217;t wear a <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/boob-belt.html\">boob belt dress <\/a>to a funeral. Nor should you wear a skin-tight, backless white halter dress to your first day of work as an intern at CNN. I didn&#8217;t do that! Someone else did. I&#8217;m still traumatized ten years later. &#8220;Wear What You Want&#8221; applies to your &#8220;you&#8221; time: casual time, fun time, party time, private time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">2. Why Did You Start Blogging in the First Place?<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>I could answer this question in many different ways. It was to promote my business. Because I had an interesting encounter with <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Britney%20Spears\">Britney Spears<\/a>. To talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/queens\">queens<\/a>. Because <a href=\"http:\/\/stylebytes.net\/\">Agathe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/parisbreakfasts.blogspot.com\/\">Carol<\/a> encouraged me to. Because it&#8217;s a good way to avoid real work while pretending I&#8217;m doing something constructive.  To convince people to <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/kneel-before-wendy-brandes.html\">kneel before Wendy Brandes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3. What is Your Best Blogging Experience?  Your Worst?<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>Getting to &#8220;meet&#8221; all you gorgeous bitches is the best. Realizing I&#8217;d signed up for an unpaid yet time-consuming job is the worst. Or maybe comment spam is the worst. Hmm.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">4. What Do You Think Will Happen to Your Blog in 2008?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>It will provide 100% of the recommended daily allowance of essential vitamins and minerals. And more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocosworld.com\/new\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, my husband told a cab driver to stop &#8220;in the middle of the next blog, um, block!&#8221; We&#8217;ve got blogs on the brain, especially me, because I&#8217;m knee-deep in unanswered memes. I better get moving. Wardrobe Oxygen tagged me with this one, as did Diana of So Fash&#8217;On a while ago. 1. What&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/middle-of-next-blog\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,88,94,93,103],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","7":"category-coco","8":"category-memes","9":"category-tags","10":"category-wear-what-you-want","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43897,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/43897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}