{"id":26,"date":"2007-06-19T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T01:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/06\/19\/if-you-blog-in-an-empty-forest-will-anyone-hear-you\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T20:34:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:34:45","slug":"if-you-blog-in-an-empty-forest-will-anyone-hear-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/if-you-blog-in-an-empty-forest-will-anyone-hear-you\/","title":{"rendered":"If you blog in an empty forest, will anyone hear you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I wrote this post two\u00c2\u00a0nights ago and I guess it’s now irrelevant<\/a>. I feel like this blog is like a baby born prematurely — you have to work a bit harder a bit earlier than expected, but it will all be okay in the end):<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0I set up this web site a few days ago just to see what this whole blogging thing would work with a book. Right now, until we get a fortune cookie header up there, I am switching between boats and tomatoes and puppies and whatever other designs amuse me.\u00c2\u00a0 Essentially no one knows that I am blogging right now. This url has not been submitted to any search engine. No one except my friends and the people at Warner\/Hachette Book Group\/Grand Central Publishing\/Whatever one prefers to call it, know my book is even called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, so no one is going to type it into their address bar. So am I just blogging into oblivion? If no one reads anything you\u00c2\u00a0 write, are you still a writer? Or am I blogging for an imaginary audience who one day<\/em> may read this entry? This is getting too meta for me. I must sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(I wrote this post two\u00c2\u00a0nights ago and I guess it’s now irrelevant. I feel like this blog is like a baby born prematurely — you have to work a bit harder a bit earlier than expected, but it will all be okay in the end): \u00c2\u00a0I set up this web site a few days ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}