{"id":2303,"date":"2008-02-22T09:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2008-02-22T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T23:10:37","slug":"i-lost-all-my-friends-through-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"I Lost All My Friends Through Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost all the good friends I had in Los Angeles in 1997 I lost by 1998 because of their vehement objections to what I was writing online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This devastated me. I went into therapy for years to talk about it.<\/p>\n

As the years rolled by, I made new friends through my blogging.<\/p>\n

At the moment, a ton of people stay away from me because my blogging creeps them out. A smaller number of people approach me because they like my blogging.<\/p>\n

I try to keep my priorities clear: There are a few relationships that are so precious to me that I will not endanger them through my blogging. Aside from those relationships, my blogging comes first.<\/p>\n

Because I live on the edge, I know a lot of people who live on the edge. I say to myself and to them — identify the relationships most important to you and do what you need to do to maintain them.<\/p>\n

One day in seventh grade (1979), my teacher Audrey Judd wanted to get me more involved. I was socially isolated. She had me write a story that included all of my classmates.<\/p>\n

I did. I loved it. My classmates loved it.<\/p>\n

I’ll never forget the impact it had. I learned that when you write about people, you get their attention.<\/p>\n

I know it’s not cool to admit this but I love to grab attention.<\/p>\n

Hey, read me!<\/p>\n

LimmudLA is just like seventh grade<\/a>. Just as 30 years ago everyone was hyper about what I was writing on them<\/a>, today the limmudniks are all hyper about what I’m writing on them<\/a>. I gotta give props to the one person out of the many concerned who had the balls to talk to me. All the rest are a bunch of cowards.<\/p>\n

That’s so cool! With fex exceptions, nobody cares what the Jewish Journal writes because it’s a boring newspaper. But Little Ol’ Levi, Torah Jew and Moral Leader extraordinaire, shines his Jedi light across the internet for Jew and goyim alike, arousing them from their moral stupor!<\/p>\n

Now all I need are the right Air Supply lyrics<\/a> to go with this drama — and a wife!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost all the good friends I had in Los Angeles in 1997 I lost by 1998 because of their vehement objections to what I was writing online. This devastated me. I went into therapy for years to talk about it. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}