{"id":1384,"date":"2010-12-28T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T01:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/where-have-all-the-posts-gone\/"},"modified":"2010-12-28T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T01:15:50","slug":"where-have-all-the-posts-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/where-have-all-the-posts-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the posts gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally it drives me crazy when people write posts about not writing posts.&#160; Usually they are either apologizing for not writing, or promising more to come.&#160; I just don&#8217;t get that.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026 that being said\u2026 I want to comment on my decrease in blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I could complain that I have been too busy.&#160; I could admit I have been too lazy.&#160; It could be the fact that in preparing for our move I have had less time to think about blog-worthy subjects.<\/p>\n<p>But, the truth of the matter is that I have found another outlet.&#160; A couple years ago I noticed the rise of my blogging coincided with graduating seminary and ending my tenure as pastor.&#160; Basically I took up blogging because I had lost my other outlets for writing and processing big ideas: sermon writing and papers for seminary.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have returned as the pastor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevensonschapel.com\">Stevenson&#8217;s Chapel in Russellville<\/a>, I am once again writing 8-10 pages a week for a typical sermon.&#160; This has not only taken up my time, it has also been my release for thinking through big picture ideas.<\/p>\n<p>If you are missing your fix of Ben&#8217;s writing (HA!&#160; Who am I kidding?), you can read my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevensonschapel.com\/pastors-notes\/\">sermons<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally it drives me crazy when people write posts about not writing posts.&#160; Usually they are either apologizing for not writing, or promising more to come.&#160; I just don&#8217;t get that. But\u2026 that being said\u2026 I want to comment on my decrease in blogging. Sure, I could complain that I have been too busy.&#160; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,420,77,638,620],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-blog","tag-blogging","tag-preaching","tag-sermons","tag-stevensons-chapel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}