{"id":7403,"date":"2023-10-05T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2023-10-23T03:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:04:52","slug":"blogs-posts-essays-articles-and-what-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/blogs-posts-essays-articles-and-what-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs, Posts, Essays, Articles: and What I Write"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Among many other things, I am a fan of Foglio Studio’s “Girl Genius” ongoing comic book series. I’d have their books, if the household budget allowed such spending, and that’s another topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point is that I found this question in their blog today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Ughhhh I forgot I had this<\/a>“
Kaja, Girl Genius Backstage (September 16, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“…Do people even still use blogs?…”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’ve gathered that the heyday of blogging is long since passed, but I don’t know the answer, or answers. “Long since” by American standards, that is, and I’m drifting off-topic again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Clockwise<\/a>I do know that I’m still posting something new here on A Catholic Citizen in America each Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although sometimes keeping that schedule was a tad challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether or not that’s “blogging” depends, like so much else, on what the word’s taken to mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think of A Catholic Citizen in America as a blog, and my ‘Saturday’ posts as blog posts: largely because the (free) service I used back in 2008, when I started, had those labels. The service was Blogger.com, the first A Catholic Citizen in America post went online September 16, 2008: and I’m drifting again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If my default labels for the stuff I write are widely meaningful, then I’m a blogger and what I do each week is blogging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, if I shift mental gears and look at how I see my content and what I do while preparing it: I’m writing essays, monographs, or articles. “Monograph” sounds a trifle highfalutin, “essay” reminds me of my college days, but all three labels strike me as accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d prefer “article”, since I try to make these things fun to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe “fun” isn’t the right word. Let’s say worth the time it takes to read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now I’d better get back to this week’s “article”. It’s about what scientists found in the Trapezium Cluster, and why other scientists deliberately dropped a few thousand atoms of antimatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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