{"id":12253,"date":"2016-05-10T23:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T04:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/?p=12253"},"modified":"2016-05-10T23:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T04:30:04","slug":"2016-a-z-challenge-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/2016-a-z-challenge-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 A-Z Challenge Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for <strong>A-Z Challenge Reflections<\/strong>. I think this was my fifth year participating in A-Z. I&#8217;ll briefly discuss what I liked about the challenge, then I&#8217;ll look at some things where I could do better.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to like about this challenge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased blog traffic &#8212; this is more noticeable in the first weeks of the challenge<\/li>\n<li>I have fun putting together my posts each year and seeing who shows up<\/li>\n<li>Each year the organizers get better at making things easier for us participants<\/li>\n<li>I love the T-shirts<\/li>\n<li>I think I did a better job of keeping my posts shorter this year<\/li>\n<li>I enjoy visiting new blogs, learning about all the things people can discuss at length, and their creativity for doing so<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0 do better, I need to do a better job of getting around to other blogs. I did a better job this year of visiting my neighbors on the list, and I think I visited everyone who commented on my blog and left a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you organizers and the rest of the team for coordinating everything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for A-Z Challenge Reflections. I think this was my fifth year participating in A-Z. I&#8217;ll briefly discuss what I liked about the challenge, then I&#8217;ll look at some things where I could do better. There&#8217;s a lot to like about this challenge: Increased blog traffic &#8212; this is more <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/2016-a-z-challenge-reflections\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-12253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-z-challenge","tag-a-z-challenge-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/A-to-Z-Reflection-2016.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}