{"id":9092,"date":"2015-10-31T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2015-10-31T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T16:32:38","slug":"13-years-of-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2015\/10\/31\/13-years-of-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Years of Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"

This journal started slightly more than 13 years ago<\/a> as a way to relay my adventures back to friends while I spent three months traveling through Alaska and Northern Canada<\/a>. When that trip ended I wasn’t quite sure whether or not to continue writing, but decided to keep going and see how things went. Over the years the journal has been a useful way for me to record travel adventures, share photos, and capture random thoughts that seemed like they might be worth revisiting in a few years’ time.<\/p>\n

In today’s world where social media is the primary tool for keeping friends informed of life’s events, an online journal is less useful for recording daily adventures and instead seems like a bit of a platform for egotism – it’s somewhat presumptuous to ramble on several times a month as if what I was writing had any special merit. That said, these entries have merit to me. While I’ve posted things that made me cringe a bit at the thought that they were out there for the world to see, I’m still glad to have posted them. There is no doubt that some of my ramblings cause people to roll their eyes, but writing them helps me think through issues more completely, and trying to convey things clearly for public consumption forces me to examine those issues in ways that I might not otherwise have done.<\/p>\n

I’ve got no idea how long I’ll keep this journal going, or if at some point I’ll perhaps drop the three-entries-a-month goal and just use it to document travels. For now, however, I’m glad to have a way to share adventures and to record thoughts that can then be revisited in the future. And for those times when life isn’t exciting and there aren’t adventures to share, it still seems like a worthwhile mental exercise to pick a random topic of interest and then think it through, trying to put thoughts into words in my own fumbling way.<\/p>\n

\"Denali<\/a><\/p>\n

My favorite picture taken during the trip that was the reason for this journal’s creation. Photo from a really good day<\/a> taken at Reflection Pond in Denali National Park.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This journal started slightly more than 13 years ago as a way to relay my adventures back to friends while I spent three months traveling through Alaska and Northern Canada. When that trip ended I wasn’t quite sure whether or not to continue writing, but decided to keep going and see how things went. Over … Continue reading “13 Years of Journals”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[25],"class_list":["post-9092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions\/9116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}