{"id":912,"date":"2012-10-02T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=912"},"modified":"2012-09-27T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:07:20","slug":"blogaversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Blogaversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just realized that Friday, September 28 was the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0year anniversary of this blog.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, sure it hasn\u2019t always been at this location.\u00a0\u00a0And sure, I may have gone one of those years and only blogged a couple of times.\u00a0\u00a0But it\u2019s a little hard to believe that Knitting from Outer Space has been in existence for that long, or even that I\u2019ve been knitting for 10 years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of interesting to consider how things have changed in that time.\u00a0\u00a0Some of the knit bloggers that I first started reading back in 2004 are still around.\u00a0\u00a0Sadly, many aren\u2019t; they either simply stopped updating, or in some cases, deleted their blogs all together.\u00a0\u00a0Ravelry sort of had the same effect on knit blogs as Facebook had on Livejournal; everyone abandoned their separate little islands to be part of the bigger whole.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll admit I was one of them.\u00a0\u00a0Ravelry had so much more interaction (especially after they added the Forums), then an average knit blogger like myself saw in their comments section.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why I recently decided to try my hand at it again.\u00a0\u00a0I think part of it is trying to reconnect with my own knitting in a way.\u00a0\u00a0I feel like I\u2019ve been spending so much time reading about others\u2019 knitting or searching for patterns that just lengthen my ever-growing queue that I don\u2019t actually sit down and enjoy the feeling of needles and yarn in my own hands.\u00a0\u00a0I recently started taking a spinning class at my LYS, and it\u2019s made me slow down my process and examine what I\u2019m doing rather than dashing off headlong and being disappointed that things don\u2019t work out quite as I was expecting.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s made me remember that I feel calmer and more relaxed when I work with wool at least once a day.<\/p>\n

I have no idea if anyone out there is still even reading my blog anymore.\u00a0\u00a0I know that as I stopped blogging, I stopped reading other blogs as much (especially when Bloglines was going to go away* and I switched to Google Reader, which only stores the previous month rather than up to 200 posts per feed like Bloglines did).\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m working at getting back into the habit of checking my blog feeds at least a couple times a week.\u00a0\u00a0Then, I\u2019m going to work at commenting more so that other knit bloggers know there\u2019s someone out there reading them.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I\u2019m also going to start working on my blog revamping project again.\u00a0\u00a0When I first started blogging at Blogger.com they didn\u2019t have tags or categories, so none of my posts had that information when I transferred over to WordPress.\u00a0\u00a0When I moved my blog, I had to go through and change photo links (because I changed photo services at the same time); after all that work, it seemed hard to go back through and tag things.\u00a0\u00a0But, now the compulsive archivist in me wants everything to be nice and tidy.<\/p>\n

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*Apparently, Bloglines did not go away like they said it would.\u00a0\u00a0It looks like it changed hands.\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately, it\u2019s been so long they don\u2019t have my information anymore.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just realized that Friday, September 28 was the 6th\u00a0year anniversary of this blog.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, sure it hasn\u2019t always been at this location.\u00a0\u00a0And sure, I may have gone one of those years and only blogged a couple of times.\u00a0\u00a0But it\u2019s a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[379,8,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}