{"id":5,"date":"2004-05-03T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2004-05-03T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T10:34:10","slug":"why-i-dont-often-read-my-girlfriends-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2004\/05\/why-i-dont-often-read-my-girlfriends-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don’t (often) read my girlfriend’s blog."},"content":{"rendered":"

At the moment my girlfriend, Em, and I are studying in different places in the UK. This involves a lot of train trips (the reliability of which seems to have got a lot better recently – touch wood!) and a lot of phone calls (Thank you Orange Everyday 50). Emma has a blog (which is about to move to a new home<\/a>). I don’t (regularly) read it which might seem a bit surprising.<\/p>\n

As the cliche says: “Communication is very important”, if I read Em’s blog I feel it would cause two problems. Firstly, Em might be tempted to write things that would better be discussed aloud if I’m the intended audience. I was saying in my last entry that blogs are really good vehicles for two way communication between an MP and their constituents but weblogs have serious problems for chat between a girlfriend and a boyfriend. A blog imposes an author\/reader relationship rather than “peer to peer” communication. <\/p>\n

The first problem could be mitigated though, we could discuss it and agree to conciously not write entries with subtle (or not so subtle) messages for each other. The second problem is that it would probably reducing the amount of talking we did. Because we live in different places, much of our chat is a recounting of the events of the day. If we’d already read that on each other’s blogs we wouldn’t have those conversations or any of the topics that branch from them. I don’t know what we’d talk about instead but I suspect it would be briefer.<\/p>\n

I said that I don’t regularly read her blog, I do sometimes, partly because she plays a lot with the CSS and javascript that define the look of her page, and I like to see what she’s done and partly because I sometimes get the urge to see what she’s writing about. It means that I’ve usually spoken to her about the events in her blog before I read about them. I don’t read it very often and I don’t read every entry so hopefully Em doesn’t write it with me as the intended audience, mitigating both the problems. <\/p>\n

Em is sitting her finals at the moment (which definately cuts down the amount we talk), if she’s reading this then good luck in your exams Em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the moment my girlfriend, Em, and I are studying in different places in the UK. This involves a lot of train trips (the reliability of which seems to have got a lot better recently – touch wood!) and a lot of phone calls (Thank you Orange Everyday 50). Emma has a blog (which is about to move to a new home<\/a>). I don’t (regularly) read it which might seem a bit surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}