{"id":6303,"date":"2012-05-10T08:51:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2012-05-10T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:58:28","slug":"yeah-but-why-really-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/yeah-but-why-really-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, But Why? Really, WHY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been rolling an idea around in my head for a few months, this idea that there seems to be a shift in the landscape of blogging about travel. Rather than define this for you now, I&#8217;m asking you to help me confirm or invalidate my sense of how things are going. I&#8217;d love to have you answer a question that&#8217;s both simple and kind of complex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you start your travel blog? Why are you blogging about travel now?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re nervous, know that I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a right answer. I&#8217;m not looking for the complicated back story or your personal history of blogging, I&#8217;m looking for that iconic elevator pitch, that bare bones one or two lines that explains what&#8217;s at the heart of your motivation. I&#8217;m tempted to throw in more guidelines, but I don&#8217;t want to front load the answers.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you blog about travel, a little help? Keep it super short, two or three lines, as minimal as you can. In the comments, please? And thanks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been rolling an idea around in my head for a few months, this idea that there seems to be a shift in the landscape of blogging about travel. Rather than define this for you now, I&#8217;m asking you to help me confirm or invalidate my sense of how things are going. I&#8217;d love to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Yeah, But Why? Really, WHY?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/yeah-but-why-really-why\/#more-6303\" aria-label=\"Read more about Yeah, But Why? Really, WHY?\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6305,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}