{"id":7647,"date":"2020-05-31T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2020-05-31T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T12:02:14","slug":"fifteen-years-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen years of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I thought I’d mark an anniversary.<\/p>\n

Fifteen years ago today I wrote my first blog-post. To be truthful, in my initial zeal I wrote two, one a technical\/ admin one, and one on loving my job – I must have had a particularly busy day looking at that list of things now! They are best seen on my old blog here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I sustained a very high pace of posting to begin with – that is, for the first few years – but as real life became ever more complicated, and as I started to get negative feedback from *certain parishioners* that my, eg, regular film-reviews<\/a> merely made them ask ‘what does he do with his time’<\/a> I started to share much less. That process continued until I was mainly using the blog solely for my newspaper articles<\/a>, and in the last year or so, I haven’t even had those!<\/p>\n

Which is a way of saying two things. <\/p>\n

The first is that I miss my blog. It is my pensieve<\/a>, and writing is very good for my mental health<\/a>. I do not serve either God or the world with integrity if I do not speak my truth. The second is that, in line with an overall healing that is going on with me<\/a> (on the inside) and a sense that the unexamined life is not worth living, I feel the need to start blogging seriously and relentlessly regularly again. There is much to be said for a distribution channel that is not subject to the whims of a commercial entity, nor the painful antagonisms that have, for me, made Facebook a very unsafe space. On my blog, in contrast, I feel safe – and nobody needs to spend any time here if they do not want to (Spider Jerusalem is my hero<\/a>). My agenda will continue to be: “Exploring priesthood, prophecy and faith in the context of a culture in crisis.” It’s still the best way of summing up what I do.<\/p>\n

So.<\/p>\n

This is Planet Sam.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy the ride<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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