The twelfth day of Thirty Days of Me asks how I found out about blogging and why I decided to start one. The second part of that question is easy. The first part, I have to say I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember the answer. I do know I began blogging in April, 2003. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when I set up my Blogger account.<\/p>\n
In preparation for writing my first novel, Polar Bear on the Loose<\/em>, which was going to be in first person point of view, I wanted a place where my character could develop a personality. In April, 2003, the blog, Polar Bear on the Loose<\/em>, began. Since then, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve shifted my primary platform to WordPress, because I decided I wanted more versatility, and WordPress, hosted on my site, has given me that, but I have retained my Blogger account for a variety of reasons. Two primary reasons are my participation in other Blogger blogs and for the purposes of commenting on Blogger blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The twelfth day of Thirty Days of Me asks how I found out about blogging and why I decided to start one. The second part of that question is easy. The first part, I have to say I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember the answer. I do know I began blogging in April, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-days-of-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}