{"id":51,"date":"2005-12-16T09:18:06","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T09:18:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-26T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T21:20:14","slug":"one-year-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"One year ago today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=51\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>I began this blog, an experiment I labeled it. A remarkable experience is what it has turned out to be. Though my other creative writing efforts have suffered (poetry and other nonsense), the blog has brought me a connection with others that I didn&#8217;t anticipate. I wasn&#8217;t looking for fame, money or adoration, just a exchange between myself and the unseen. The remarkable thing is through the podcasting community (and my travel filled job) is that many of those unseen people I had a chance to meet face to face.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m one of those people who has lived in a couple of metropoli and not only feels isolated, but takes years before I have a connection with a community. I&#8217;ve spent twenty years in a nomadic society with laminated credentials that both begs for attention and hides behind barricades and yellow jacketed security guards. I often feel attacked and lost in crowds, even at church craft fairs! But dress me in black, hand me a flashlight and give me a mission to rush through a dark arena with 22,000 people in it, I feel safe. I&#8217;m an enigma wrapped in a quandary presented as a<br \/>\ncontradiction; therapy needed.<br \/>\nThree hundred sixty five days ago I began to write for myself and to myself. I never anticipated the wide scope of hits this little website has had; the cluster map blows my mind when I see the spread of dots. I don&#8217;t have hundreds of thousands of readers or listeners and don&#8217;t believe I ever will. That actually makes me glad as I&#8217;m not sure that I would feel comfortable with the pressure. I thank each and every one of you for commenting, supporting and linking to me; this year has been a difficult adventure which you have made that much easier by reaching back to let me know that you are there. I ask you not to stop connecting with others; you may stop reading or listening to PIBC but continue to participate with others and let them you know that you&#8217;re there. You don&#8217;t have to agree or like it; just engage. It makes a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began this blog, an experiment I labeled it. A remarkable experience is what it has turned out to be. Though my other creative writing efforts have suffered (poetry and other nonsense), the blog has brought me a connection with others that I didn&#8217;t anticipate. I wasn&#8217;t looking for fame, money or adoration, just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}