{"id":1710,"date":"2023-01-02T13:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2023-01-12T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T05:00:03","slug":"how-blogging-went-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/01\/02\/how-blogging-went-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"How blogging went in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging since the mid-aughts. When it started, it seemed like I was a late adopter. Then it seemed like blogging died. Now, with exodus from Twitter, some people are looking at blogging again. It&#8217;s been here the whole time, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, I wrote 12,701 words across 35 posts. Eye-balling the graph, a best-line fit has me writing zero words when I die of old age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221227-word-count-output.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221227-word-count-output.png?resize=840%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A graph of blog output per year in words and entries.\" class=\"wp-image-1709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221227-word-count-output.png?resize=1024%2C579&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221227-word-count-output.png?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221227-word-count-output.png?resize=768%2C434&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221227-word-count-output.png?resize=1200%2C679&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20221227-word-count-output.png?w=1508&amp;ssl=1 1508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blog output per year, normalized so that entries and words can go on the same axis. The green bar is the transition from the old blog to this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging since the mid-aughts. When it started, it seemed like I was a late adopter. Then it seemed like blogging died. Now, with exodus from Twitter, some people are looking at blogging again. It&#8217;s been here the whole time, man. Last year, I wrote 12,701 words across 35 posts. Eye-balling the graph, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/01\/02\/how-blogging-went-in-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How blogging went in 2022&#8221;<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-nfw","tag-brevity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-rA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}