{"id":176,"date":"2005-03-19T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2005-03-19T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2005-03-19T18:01:13","slug":"why-blog-and-the-origins-of-kellybean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Why blog? (and the origins of kellybean)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SF Chronicle ran a special in the Business and Technology section earlier this year. <\/p>\n

The article<\/a> I read put a spotlight on those \u201cbaring their souls\u201d in their blogs. It pointed me to many different blogs: a husband that had lost his wife to breast cancer and how he\u2019s coping and moving on; a first-time father (a great blog, btw); a woman that\u2019s trying to get pregnant; and a guy with Lou Gherig\u2019s disease. In all, it\u2019s inspiring others that are going though similar events, knowing that they\u2019re not alone. <\/p>\n

My uncle asked me this question a while back: Why blog? Why would someone want to post personal stuff on the internet? Granted, I don\u2019t post extremely *personal* stuff on kellybean\u2026our friend Nick has summed it up on his blog’s welcome page<\/a>: it\u2019s a great way to let friends and family know what\u2019s going on in our day-to-day lives. I\u2019ve kept journals, diaries for the longest time and kellybean is just another outlet for the going-ons in my mind.<\/p>\n

Shortly after I started kellybean, I e-mailed my friend GCW, apologizing for not getting in touch sooner and catching her up on what\u2019s been going on. GCW responded something along the lines of that it was fine because, now with kellybean, she felt closer to me \u2013 knowing what S & I have been up to.<\/p>\n

For those who are curious: kellybean was my friend Sarah\u2019s – my roomie sophomore year at UCSD – nickname for me. Though, I do also like jellybeans (jellybellys only!).<\/p>\n

So, here’s to 1 year of kellybean and thanks to all my readers (all 5 of you!) for reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SF Chronicle ran a special in the Business and Technology section earlier this year. The article I read put a spotlight on those \u201cbaring their souls\u201d in their blogs. It pointed me to many different blogs: a husband that had lost his wife to breast cancer and how he\u2019s coping and moving on; a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}