{"id":71,"date":"2004-02-19T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/well_here_i_am.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:47","slug":"well_here_i_am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/02\/well_here_i_am.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Well, Here I am."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my weblog. You may be wondering why anyone in their right mind would start a web site entirely for their own thoughts and ideas. Well, to start with, I&#8217;ve not often been accused of being in my right mind. It does sound a bit egocentric, doesn&#8217;t it? Who am I to think that anyone else would want to read my ramblings? Well, it remains to be seen whether anyone will or not!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve spent a lot of time recently on the net reading other people&#8217;s thoughts on their own blogs and forums and I figured why not? It&#8217;s been a challenging year for me spiritually, but yet a rewarding one. I feel like the spiritual rug was pulled out from under me. It was through reading articles on line and posting my thoughts as comments or in forums that I began to get my spiritual bearings again. Frankly, it was the responses to the comments as much as anything that helped me to learn and grow. So I figured why not start my own site? So, for me the success of the site depends a great deal on the comments I receive. So if anything here strikes you at all &#8211; funny, alarming, encouraging, offensive, enlightening, curious &#8211; anything at all, post a comment and let me know.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have lots to post in the next few days. I&#8217;ve decided to keep my quiet time notes here in my web log and I have my written notes since January 1 to post. There are also a few things that I&#8217;ve wanted to post on since I decided to start this blog a couple of weeks ago.<br \/>\nSo I hope you enjoy the site and come back often. It will probably change a lot over the coming weeks as I learn what I&#8217;m doing and hone the look and feel that I want.<br \/>\nThanks,<br \/>\nDoug Schaefer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my weblog. You may be wondering why anyone in their right mind would start a web site entirely for their own thoughts and ideas. 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