{"id":3215,"date":"2011-07-09T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/07\/blogging-on-hold-for-a-while.html"},"modified":"2011-07-09T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T20:35:00","slug":"blogging-on-hold-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/07\/blogging-on-hold-for-a-while.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging on hold for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There\u2019s two reasons.\u00a0 One, my new job, helping my Mom move since the passing of my Dad, and generally just making time for the family isn\u2019t allowing the time needed to really do a good work on the blog.\u00a0 Second, I\u2019m really, really reconsidering what kind of a blog I want.\u00a0 Two reasons for this are best seen\u00a0in the comments\u00a0here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

On one hand, you have folks coming out and blasting the media for exploiting the death of Caylee Anthony for its own purposes by basically exploiting the death of Caylee Anthony in order to blast pro-choicers, the press, talk radio, or any one of a hundred not-me types while getting in an all-too-common \u201cAmerica Always Sucks\u201d meme.\u00a0 And of course, they miss the irony of their own hypocrisy in doing so.\u00a0 But alas, far too many ideological blogs appear\u00a0to be going that direction I\u2019m sad to say, and that\u2019s the direction of the fundamentalist.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But on the other hand, you have someone defending Dan Savage, the Gay Rights Movement\u2019s answer to Fred Phelps, or at least Jack Chick.\u00a0 A man who spews hatred and loathing at anyone who doesn\u2019t conform to his values, who wishes to turn kids against their parents while teaching them the glories of anal sex (even in an age of AIDS), and who has more than once said that he feels anyone in any school who speaks out against homosexuality should be treated like a bully.\u00a0 In short, they should be punished.\u00a0 His comparing certain individuals to fecal matter was not condemned, but rather passionately defended.\u00a0 And when I and others suggested Savage might be a bit on the bad side of things, note the resistance on the part of some.<\/p>\n

The blogosphere is a place, apparently, where people go to say there are no rules, just my side winning \u2013 becoming the very things they so often condemn.\u00a0 Not wishing to repeat that, and not wishing to bring back the comments section since I noticed that stopping people from acting that way caused most of the commenters to leave, has made me want to think through just what I want from this blog.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So until then, once more, I\u2019ll turn to the things that matter so much to me, and that\u2019s my family.\u00a0 Here are the boys at COSI (that\u2019s Center of Science and Industry) in Columbus striking an interesting pose outside of the Dinosaur exhibit (which could have been a day trip in and of itself).\u00a0 The Adventure exhibit, where you wander through ruins looking for clues, was equally fun.\u00a0 Will be back when I can, and hopefully will see some light at the end of the blogging tunnel and escape the pitfall that is, sadly, all too common on the blogosphere (a pitfall I\u2019m afraid even Catholic blogs seem unable to avoid in the long haul).\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Note the examples I give are not unique to those sites.\u00a0 It\u2019s unfortunate that they are simply indicative of what it seems goes on across most blogs.\u00a0 I could have spent an entire post on the Huffpost and other such locations that make these seem tame by comparison, as I have mentioned before.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s two reasons.\u00a0 One, my new job, helping my Mom move since the passing of my Dad, and generally just making time for the family isn\u2019t allowing the time needed to really do a good work on the blog.\u00a0 Second, I\u2019m really, really reconsidering what kind of a blog I want.\u00a0 Two reasons for this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBlogging on hold for a while<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There's two reasons.  One, my new job, helping my Mom move since the passing of my Dad, and generally just making time for the family isn't allowing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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