{"id":2918,"date":"2021-04-17T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"clarifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"CLARIFYING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s funny. I have been writing every day now since the start of 2021 &#8211; three and a half months. When I began, I thought I would likely run short on topics by the end of January, but now at April 16th, I feel like I am just getting started.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the people I can count on to read this blog on a regular basis is my wife, Melissa. She says she reads it to find out what I am thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m a pretty private person &#8211; a true introvert &#8211; and I spend a lot of time inside my own head. Over the past year, the furniture there has all been rearranged and it&#8217;s very disconcerting. Writing out my thoughts has been tremendously helpful to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The greatest benefit has been clarity. Writing forces me to clarify what I am thinking and feeling &#8211; primarily to myself and secondarily to others, like Melissa.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I guess, in a sense, my primary audience at the moment is &#8230; me.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it is acceptable to &#8220;talk to yourself&#8221;, couldn&#8217;t it also be a thing to &#8220;write to yourself&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny. I have been writing every day now since the start of 2021 &#8211; three and a half months. When I began, I thought I would likely run short on topics by the end of January, but now at April 16th, I feel like I am just getting started.\u00a0 One of the people I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}