{"id":47499,"date":"2024-07-23T21:49:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T01:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=47499"},"modified":"2024-07-23T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T01:49:34","slug":"blogversary-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/blogversary-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogversary 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every time I plan to make a big blogging comeback, grief gets in the way. Last year, it was the loss of my gorgeous rapper friend Gangsta Boo. This year, it&#8217;s been the horrific genocide of the Palestinian people. If you follow me on Instagram, you&#8217;re aware of my sentiments and activism related to Gaza and the West Bank. Now, as I prepared to dive into this blogversary post, I find I&#8217;m having a technical problem related to website security &#8211; adding links to this post is impossible and the blog isn&#8217;t even accessible from most browsers. I&#8217;ll have to deal with that tomorrow. But I&#8217;m leaving this as kind of a &#8220;placeholder&#8221; post to say I&#8217;m still here. And that seems appropriate because my very first post on July 23, 2007, was a placeholder that said I probably wouldn&#8217;t be blogging much.  I immediately proved myself wrong by blogging up a storm. It would be nice to follow that same pattern now! Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I plan to make a big blogging comeback, grief gets in the way. Last year, it was the loss of my gorgeous rapper friend Gangsta Boo. This year, it&#8217;s been the horrific genocide of the Palestinian people. If you follow me on Instagram, you&#8217;re aware of my sentiments and activism related to Gaza&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/blogversary-17\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[110,656,723],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anniversaries","7":"category-blogversary","8":"category-special-occasions","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47499","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=47499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47500,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47499\/revisions\/47500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}