{"id":160484,"date":"2024-07-27T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160484"},"modified":"2024-07-27T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T21:05:45","slug":"oh-yeah-i-have-a-blog-dont-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/27\/oh-yeah-i-have-a-blog-dont-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, yeah, I have a blog, don&#8217;t I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I&#8217;ve been doing a piss-poor job of updating the blog here.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, all the normal reasons. Job really stressful. Busy with stuff at home. But ultimately it really is about prioritization: I&#8217;ve doing plenty of stuff with my <a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\">quotations blog<\/a>, and even my <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/\">gaming blog<\/a> has been getting some love.<\/p>\n<p>What I usually do here has traditionally been &#8220;my life&#8221; (boring), &#8220;my pop culture stuff&#8221; (uninspiring of late), and &#8220;my politics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Aha.<\/p>\n<p>Politics has been &#8212; a wildly stressful hot mess.\u00a0 Trump &amp; Co. are simultaneously terrifying and fury-inducing in their smug proto-fascism and very direct threat to people I love (and, hell, to me under certain not-necessarily-the-worst-case scenarios). Biden&#8217;s problems filled me with existential dread (since somewhat alleviated by Harris &#8212; but that&#8217;s a whole other set of posts). And, with everything else going on, it&#8217;s just hard to write about and face that terror and dread and fury in a way that isn&#8217;t just incoherent keyboard smashing.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>(And, yes, feel free to mutter &#8220;Trump derangement syndrome&#8221; &#8230; and keep walking on.)<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t promise I&#8217;ll be more active here, but it&#8217;s bubbled to the top of my attention again, so &#8230; let&#8217;s hope for the best.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160487\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-160487\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud-650x355.png\" alt=\"Stress Brain word cloud\" width=\"650\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud-650x355.png 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud-150x82.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud.png 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is my brain on stress. Any questions?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the chirping crickets are real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2136,69,25,1071],"tags":[1787,2318],"class_list":["post-160484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-elections-2024","category-family","category-gay-stuff","category-trump","tag-blogging","tag-stress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Stress-Brain-word-cloud.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134878,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/samantha-bee-trump-national-anthem-brouhaha.html","url_meta":{"origin":160484,"position":0},"title":"Samantha Bee on Trump and the National Anthem brouhaha","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Oct-17 11:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The usual good stuff from Samantha. A couple of additional notes (beyond what I've written elsewhere on the matter): 1. 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