{"id":54823,"date":"2014-05-14T21:51:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54823"},"modified":"2014-05-15T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:12:10","slug":"whats-my-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54823","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s My Strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 17 years, people who were smart and who did not like my blogging, would try to figure out what I was doing. What was my strategy? Was I in it for the money or for the girls? Eventually people figured out that I have no strategy. I blog because it allows me to make money by thinking out loud and talking to people. There&#8217;s no vision beyond that. There are many things I believe in, often changing, but I don&#8217;t see myself as an advocate due to my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luke_Ford\">flawed life<\/a> (I bring disrepute on anything I espouse). I&#8217;m more interested in describing the world rather than trying to change it. <\/p>\n<p>If my critics shut down my advertisers, I blog for thrills (and for donations). Something about being the youngest child of a preacher daddy <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/luke_ford\/bio\/l1.html\">drives me<\/a> to express myself with shock and awe. <\/p>\n<p>My first two years online, my battles were intense, and I felt like they were for my survival, but with every victory, my conflicts became less intense, and for the past six years, since my last sad victim in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?cat=17905\">Rabbi YY Rubinstein<\/a>, nobody has tried to intimidate me into shutting up. <\/p>\n<p>Wielded correctly, the blog is mightier than the sword. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 17 years, people who were smart and who did not like my blogging, would try to figure out what I was doing. What was my strategy? Was I in it for the money or for the girls? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54823","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=54823"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54859,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54823\/revisions\/54859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}