{"id":12166,"date":"2022-08-16T15:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/16\/sigh-writing-and-blogging-misfires\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T23:49:11","slug":"sigh-writing-and-blogging-misfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/16\/sigh-writing-and-blogging-misfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigh\u2026 Writing and blogging misfires!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been one of those time in my life where I\u2019ll start to write something and then it all just goes to hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll write a paragraph, get to the end and think, \u201cWhere was I going with this?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh I\u2019ll push on hoping that everything resolves itself in the end, but it doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Things just get worse. Then I\u2019ll go back an re-read what I\u2019ve written and think, \u201cThis is really not worthy of me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The blessed [DELETE] key is pressed and my computer dutifully asks me if I\u2019m sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf Course I\u2019m sure! Have you read this drivel?\u201d I say outloud to the computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The computer responds, \u201cNot my Table!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The offending document is hurled into the bit-bucket and I try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose all writers have times like these. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m just tired of feeling like somehow I\u2019ve dropped 50 points on the IQ scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>On the plus side, if my IQ is dropping maybe soon it will drop to a point where I don\u2019t know how stupid I am?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know if ignorance is bliss, but the way things are going I may soon find out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I moved on from being unable to write. To reading something from a gentleman whose writing I always find informative and educational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The piece is called:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/my-gratitude-for-the-apologies-and-sincere-expressions-of-regret\/\">My Gratitude For the Apologies and Sincere Expressions of Regret<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>As most of you know, I love a good bit of <strong><em>sarcasm<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The author is Thomas Harrington. Here is his short Bio<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. He specializes in Iberian movements of national identity Contemporary Catalan culture. His writings are at <a href=\"Thomassharrington.com\">Thomassharrington.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Harrington\u2019s piece might not make sense to you if you are unaware of the CDC\u2019s recent reversal of position on COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>For your convenience, here is <a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/a-deeper-dive-into-the-cdc-reversal\/\">another piece<\/a> from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\">Brownstone Institute<\/a><\/em>. Within the piece is a link to the actual CDC report. The article itself does a good job distilling the salient points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been one of those time in my life where I\u2019ll start to write something and then it all just goes to hell. I\u2019ll write a paragraph, get to the end and think, \u201cWhere was I going with this?\u201d Oh I\u2019ll push on hoping that everything resolves itself in the end, but it doesn\u2019t. Things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/16\/sigh-writing-and-blogging-misfires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sigh\u2026 Writing and blogging misfires!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,86,87,19],"tags":[223,210,181,254],"class_list":["post-12166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-ironic","category-musings","category-things-that-make-you-say-hum","tag-humor","tag-ironic","tag-musings","tag-things-that-make-you-say-hmmm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12175,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions\/12175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}