{"id":8378,"date":"2014-01-05T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2014-01-05T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:26:12","slug":"sonicfrog-net-9-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8378","title":{"rendered":"Sonicfrog.Net &#8211; 9 Years And Counting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Sonicfrog.Net%20-%209%20Years%20And%20Counting%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Happy Blogaversary to me&#8230; Us!<\/p>\n<p>I started this blog as a means to improve my spelling and writing skills as I was beginning my journey to become a credentialed teacher. I wanted to improve my vocabulary. My typing skills honestly absolutely sucked nine years ago. I got my credential 5 years ago, but so far, have not worked full time as a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>All is not lost. <\/p>\n<p>Though I may not be teaching, and my blog never got popular like some others did, and there is certainly no money in this, I don&#8217;t regret blogging for one minute. No. It hasn&#8217;t been a waste of time. There have been other unanticipated benefits to this blogging exercise. <\/p>\n<p>I have been writing songs since I was 13. Many of them were born of the angst I has as a teen and the struggles of being a lonely twenty-something. When I came to find peace within myself and stopped fighting against the one thing in my life that I resisted, that I am, was, and always will be gay&#8230; Well&#8230; I kind of lost the muse that inspired so many of my songs, the struggles of life.<\/p>\n<p>As life got easier to deal with, my lyric writing slowed to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I started to write a few songs again. Much to my amazement, the words would flow out of me easier than they ever had even at the height of my miseries. That is a direct result of committing myself to sit down and write a blog post, even when I wasn&#8217;t always in the mood. Practice may not make perfect, but it does make better! And that trained me to be able to write on a whim. Now it come almost too easy!  This has revealed another weakness that must be worked on&#8230;  I need to relearn music theory and learn many more chords.<\/p>\n<p>The second HUGE way that my blog has changed my life&#8230;.  I have started writing a book!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is doing it! If not for the nine years of blogging, I couldn&#8217;t type as decently as I can now. I&#8217;m not &#8220;fast&#8221; by any means, but I&#8217;m certainly much much better at it than I was at the beginning of 2005.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll provide more details on the book soon.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to thank the internets for letting me do my thing and make a mess here on Sonicfrog. I promise &#8211; One day, I will repay you by becoming a great success and gobs of money and wealth when I am a world renowned writer \/ songwriter \/ teacher \/ person \/ thing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Sonicfrog.Net%20-%209%20Years%20And%20Counting%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Happy Blogaversary to me&#8230; Us! I started this blog as a means to improve my spelling and writing skills as I was beginning my journey to become a credentialed teacher. I wanted to improve my vocabulary. My typing skills honestly absolutely sucked nine years ago. I got my credential 5 years ago, but so far, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,59,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8379,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}