{"id":10895,"date":"0201-10-27T09:45:57","date_gmt":"0201-10-27T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10895"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T16:44:39","slug":"stopping-yes-but-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10895","title":{"rendered":"Stopping yes, but starting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the entire Western world knows, Facebook loves to remind us of our pasts.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, that includes not only all of the lovely pictures and funny things that I post (remember the vagina beauty contest and the vampire dildo? Fun times&#8230;) but also blog posts from that date in history.<\/p>\n<p>Usually I just ignore them, because, well, I wrote them and don&#8217;t need to read them again. Lately I&#8217;ve been reading them. And they sound JUST LIKE ME. Is that a good thing or a bad thing that I write so completely in my own voice? I can hear the people on both sides of the imaginary conversations so clearly.<\/p>\n<p>But it made me think about why I stopped&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why did I?<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like the imaginary conversations have gone away.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I am not bleeding internally for the lack of a creative outlet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I am still weird and struggling like we all are.<\/p>\n<p>So why not start. Maybe not with the self inflicted pressure of daily writing (you mean discipline?) but just now and then. When I need it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>I can stop any time I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the entire Western world knows, Facebook loves to remind us of our pasts. In my case, that includes not only all of the lovely pictures and funny things that I post (remember the vagina beauty contest and the vampire dildo? Fun times&#8230;) but also blog posts from that date in history. Usually I just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stopping yes, but starting?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Stopping yes, but starting?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2PJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10902,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10902","url_meta":{"origin":10895,"position":0},"title":"Stopping yes, but starting?","author":"Michelle","date":"October 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As the entire Western world knows, Facebook loves to remind us of our pasts. 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