{"id":4704,"date":"2009-08-01T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/08\/01\/a-blog-post-from-the-hammock\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T17:35:04","slug":"a-blog-post-from-the-hammock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/08\/01\/a-blog-post-from-the-hammock\/","title":{"rendered":"A blog post from the hammock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize it&#8217;s entirely possible that virtually no one will read this post. I have been a very bad blogger recently, and wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if most people have given up on it. I would dearly love to be writing more, but just never seem to find the time.<\/p>\n<p>I blame two things &#8212; one being my new(ish) job as the Globe and Mail&#8217;s online Communities Editor, which has sucked up a lot of my free time, and the other being Twitter, which makes it so seductively easy to post quick thoughts rather than taking the time to think about and write a longer post.<\/p>\n<p>As I lie here in the hammock at the family cottage up in the Ottawa Valley, I would like to think that some day I will be able to get back to writing more regularly (other than the posts I&#8217;ve been doing for the Nieman Journalism blog, which have also been few and far between lately). But I can&#8217;t promise anything.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, please feel free to follow me on Twitter (I&#8217;m @mathewi) and start up a conversation about new media, technology, journalism or pretty much anything else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/l-1600-1200-54a7379a-9a9b-418a-9947-84d57ece8d961.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/l-1600-1200-54a7379a-9a9b-418a-9947-84d57ece8d961.jpeg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize it&#8217;s entirely possible that virtually no one will read this post. I have been a very bad blogger recently, and wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if most people have given up on it. I would dearly love to be writing more, but just never seem to find the time. I blame two things &#8212; one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/08\/01\/a-blog-post-from-the-hammock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A blog post from the hammock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}