{"id":569,"date":"2009-11-16T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2009\/11\/16\/a-wee-bit-of-an-ego-boost\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T02:40:10","slug":"a-wee-bit-of-an-ego-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2009\/11\/16\/a-wee-bit-of-an-ego-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"A wee bit of an ego boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m honored and happy for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forumer.com\/\">my blog<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forumer.com\/jcravens\/&amp;thisy=2009&amp;thism=11&amp;thisd=6\">an entry from last week<\/a>, to be specific) to be featured in the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704224004574489342577763018.html\">Blog Watch<\/a>&#8221; column for Nov. 16 (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704224004574489342577763018.html\">already online<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Gee, and I thought the highlight of my day would be practicing on my motorcycle (which was a great deal of fun, nonetheless).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 update<\/strong>: None of the links in this blog work anymore, obviously. And the 2009 blog that <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> was not my personal blog, which you are reading now, but the early version of <strong>my professional blog<\/strong>, which used to be on a site called <em>forumer<\/em>. That blog&#8217;s title was <strong>Sign Up NOW to Volunteer for the Holidays<\/strong>. The content was the 2009 version of what I posted almost every year now on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/volunteer\/\">r\/volunteer<\/a>, the subreddit for discussing volunteerism, and the most up-to-date version of this message for volunteers is on my web page, <strong>Advice for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/stuff\/holidays.shtml\">finding volunteer activities during the holidays<\/a>\u00a0(spoiler alert: start looking in as early as August &#8211; not even kidding)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m honored and happy for my blog (an entry from last week, to be specific) to be featured in the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s &#8220;Blog Watch&#8221; column for Nov. 16 (already online). Gee, and I thought the highlight of my day would be practicing on my motorcycle (which was a great deal of fun, nonetheless). 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hurrah-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}