{"id":1189,"date":"2010-06-16T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/blog-hiatus-vs-business-as-usual\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:41:00","slug":"blog-hiatus-vs-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/blog-hiatus-vs-business-as-usual.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog Hiatus vs. Business as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>With a major new project comes the possibility of less blogging. As I contemplated this recently, I wondered whether nowadays, when most of us read blogs in a feed reader of some sort, there is any point in announcing a blog hiatus. What are readers\u2019 opinions about that?<\/p>\n<p>As I thought about possibly announcing a lull in blogging, I immediately started thinking of disclaimers. \u201cI may still share links to things other people have posted.\u201d \u201cI still have some books to review and will be posting those.\u201d \u201cIf something particularly grabs my interest, I\u2019ll probably post on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when I realized that my proposed blog hiatus could be called by another name: <em>business as usual<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So I don\u2019t anticipate any real change in what goes on here at Exploring Our Matrix. 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