{"id":281,"date":"2007-01-01T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T07:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=281"},"modified":"2007-01-01T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T07:11:01","slug":"dear-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Dear diary &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another diary &#8230;<br \/>\nIn this weekend&#8217;s Observer&#8221; newspaper, there was <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,,1980361,00.html\">an article<\/a> about how and why various people keep diaries, since this is the time of year when many individuals first start writing a personal diary.<br \/>\nI can certainly identify with this. I&#8217;ve been keeping a diary since I was 13 and I&#8217;ve never missed a day. This means that I&#8217;ve now filled 45 diaries with daily entries totalling 16,437.<br \/>\nWhen one keeps a diary and reviews it from time to time, one is constantly reminded about how much one forgets and, even when one remembers, how much one revises and even reorders memories.<br \/>\nSome of my friends have joked that, since I&#8217;ve had this personal weblog, I don&#8217;t need to keep a diary because all my life is out there on the blog. But that&#8217;s not true.<br \/>\nI write a lot of personal material in my diary that never appears on this blog, while conversely I write on this blog about all sorts of subjects that I never mention in my diary. The two certainly intersect and complement one another but, believe me, they are different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another diary &#8230; In this weekend&#8217;s Observer&#8221; newspaper, there was an article about how and why various people keep diaries, since this is the time of year when many individuals first start writing a personal diary. I can certainly identify with this. I&#8217;ve been keeping a diary since I was 13 and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}