{"id":32174,"date":"2026-04-08T22:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=32174"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:13:35","slug":"17-years-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/17-years-of-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"17 years of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000011064-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000011064-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000011064-1024x579.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000011064-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000011064-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000011064-1536x869.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000011064-2048x1159.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Reader,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week I achieved 17 years of blogging. I&#8217;ve written here longer than I lived in my childhood home&#8230;or any home. I have blogged longer than I homeschooled our kids and longer than my years of formal education. This blog has been a kind of home for my thoughts, as well as an education as I have wrestled to compose over 2,600 posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some things you may not know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to quit writing this blog quite often. \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I almost always feel uncomfortable and insecure as I hit, &#8220;Publish&#8221;. \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When someone tells me something positive about the writing, I feel so wonderful. \u2665\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike the early years, this blog will only occasionally have family updates. Our children have their own lives now. \ud83d\udc69\ud83d\udc68\ud83d\udc68\ud83d\udc68<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stopped monitoring to see if people were reading and this freed my mind to write what I want. \ud83d\uddfd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost every post goes through multiple revisions, yet I am sure you have noticed I retain plenty of errors. \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog doesn&#8217;t help me feel connected to others, but I think it makes people feel connected to me. It&#8217;s solitary work.\ud83c\udfdd\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever I want to quit, words such as, &#8220;Change your attitude,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about popularity,&#8221; and &#8220;Keep going,&#8221; come to my mind. So, I keep writing for my family. \ud83e\ude84<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for being a friend of my blog. Once something is published and public, it takes a new life in the minds of readers. This is where difficulty and disappointment can enter, but also the potential for good. The writing is mine and has its own personal meaning, but when you read, it also becomes yours to take what you need and build your own thoughts. Truly, I hope that it helps you. I write because I love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83e\ude77A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader, This week I achieved 17 years of blogging. I&#8217;ve written here longer than I lived in my childhood home&#8230;or any home. I have blogged longer than I homeschooled our kids and longer than my years of formal education. This blog has been a kind of home for my thoughts, as well as an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/17-years-of-blogging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">17 years of blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32174"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32228,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32174\/revisions\/32228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}