{"id":253,"date":"2004-11-14T11:23:16","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T11:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/11\/14\/the_power_of_positive_blogging\/"},"modified":"2004-11-14T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T11:23:16","slug":"the_power_of_positive_blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/11\/14\/the_power_of_positive_blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Positive Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I [heart] Bruce and Vicki Small.<br \/>\nA couple of weeks ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/archives\/000412.html\">mentioned<\/a> that a colleague had given me a Super 8 video camera. Bruce commented that my new camera was not such a great gift, given the cost of film, the hassle of set-up, and the nightmare of editing, especially compared to digital. I said &#8220;Yes, yes, all true &#8211; but I don&#8217;t have a digital video camera, and I&#8217;m not likely to have one handed to me anytime soon.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo Bruce sent me his VHS camcorder.<br \/>\nNow, while I suspect this is all just a concerted effort to get me to make a public admission that not all Republicans are pure evil, I have to say I am overwhelmed, touched, and generally, well, overwhelmed, again.<br \/>\nDid I mention that the package included a telephoto lens, a wide-angle lens, the battery charger and the little, blinding light that sits on top? (Also, a small, dead Arizonan spider tucked away in the clock battery compartment, but I figure that&#8217;s probably a present for Heidi, not me:)<br \/>\nSo, thank you, thank you, thank you. We will think of you every time we use the camera!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I [heart] Bruce and Vicki Small. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that a colleague had given me a Super 8 video camera. Bruce commented that my new camera was not such a great gift, given the cost of film, the hassle of set-up, and the nightmare of editing, especially compared to digital. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/11\/14\/the_power_of_positive_blogging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Power of Positive Blogging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}