{"id":52,"date":"2015-10-01T22:36:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/?p=52"},"modified":"2015-10-01T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:37:47","slug":"just-because-a-30-day-blogging-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/2015\/10\/01\/just-because-a-30-day-blogging-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because: A 30 Day Blogging Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have big plans for this blog, yet I started it over a year ago and have only made a handful of posts. I\u00a0have situations in my life that make it &#8211; shall we say, different? &#8211; than most people I encounter, and I love to write. Maybe doing a 30 Day Blog Challenge will be the kick in the pants I need to devote myself to my blogging and get a routine going.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the types of blogs I&#8217;ll be posting over the course of October. If you see this and get inspired to join in, please mention that with a link to your blog in the comments and I&#8217;ll be sure to check your blog out and cheer you on, too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/30dayblog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53\" src=\"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/30dayblog-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"30dayblog\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/30dayblog-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/30dayblog-250x200.jpg 250w, http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/30dayblog.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 1: My Blog&#8217;s Name: <a href=\"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\" target=\"_blank\">omaser.com\/blog\/kss<\/a>: Just Because, Sharing glimpses of my life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Omaser.com\" target=\"_blank\">Omaser.com<\/a> is my personal domain. The word omaser used to have a personal meaning, but it doesn&#8217;t anymore. I keep it around because I&#8217;ve had the domain for 20+ years and because I like that it&#8217;s a nonsensical word that I don&#8217;t see used in other places. When you see that word pop up, it&#8217;s almost always attached to me in some way. When I decided to start a blog, I decided to just host it on my own domain instead of hosting it on someone else&#8217;s or getting a domain specific to the blog.<\/p>\n<p>KSS are my initials. My name is Kelly S. Spina. I don&#8217;t mind sharing that publicly, you can get that much from a whois search.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.www.who.is\/whois\/omaser.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.www.who.is\/whois\/omaser.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just Because. It&#8217;s such a fun phrase! And a lot of people must seem to enjoy playing with those words if we use a Google Images search as a source:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;site=imghp&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=hp&amp;biw=1440&amp;bih=809&amp;q=just+because&amp;oq=just+because&amp;gs_l=img.3..0l10.1830.5896.0.6624.16.12.2.2.2.0.335.1230.0j1j3j1.5.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..7.9.1246.sCHrHfHfQpw\" target=\"_blank\">&lt; Google Image Search &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to lock myself into one niche beyond things that have touched and affected my life, so I wanted to pick a title that reflected that to an extent. I like that I can post about my pregnancy, my kids, my religion, and illness, and I&#8217;m still open to discuss romance, work, politics, etc. I&#8217;d like to consider my blog to be the kind of stories one would tell another friend when meeting for a cup of coffee \/ tea \/ hot chocolate. Light, entertaining, thought provoking, and informative; that&#8217;s my goal here with each blog post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/justbecause.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/justbecause-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"justbecause\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/justbecause-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/justbecause-250x182.jpg 250w, http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/justbecause.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have big plans for this blog, yet I started it over a year ago and have only made a handful of posts. I\u00a0have situations in my life that make it &#8211; shall we say, different? &#8211; than most people I encounter, and I love to write. Maybe doing a 30 Day Blog Challenge will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","last-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omaser.com\/blog\/kss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}