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Blogging is a funny exercise for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I never intended to document my life this way but along the way, <\/a> I’ve become comfortable expressing my inner dialogue (monologue?) through this medium.\u00c2\u00a0 Reflecting back on previous posts, artificial<\/a> I remember the struggle to express what I was feeling at the time (anxiety, illness<\/a> pain, fear, joy, celebration) and then the anxiety related to posting those experiences for all to read.\u00c2\u00a0 The sum of these posts is just a fragment of who I am, but sometimes I’m unwilling to unveil them. I’ve hesitated to post corny jokes or images because I’ve wanted to project a cerebral, intelligent image of myself.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve hovered the mouse pointer over the “publish” button when I’ve written posts during an emotionally traumatic period. My insecurities reveal themselves as I compare myself with friends who are more disciplined and frequent in posting their thoughts and pictures.<\/p>\n Blogging will continue to be a challenge for me as I practise how not to keep my lamp hidden under a bushel.\u00c2\u00a0 My posts are signposts in my journey, however cheesy that sounds.\u00c2\u00a0 And I won’t hesitate to hit “publish” on this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blogging is a funny exercise for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I never intended to document my life this way but along the way, I’ve become comfortable expressing my inner dialogue (monologue?) through this medium.\u00c2\u00a0 Reflecting back on previous posts, artificial I remember the struggle to express what I was feeling at the time (anxiety, illness pain, fear, joy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.tshin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}