{"id":1633,"date":"2003-07-11T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2003\/07\/11\/adios-amigos\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:43:32","slug":"adios-amigos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2003\/07\/11\/adios-amigos\/","title":{"rendered":"Adios, Amigos"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update — years later — Guess what? False alarm! It was just a temporary hiatus.]<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the final entry to the Fire Ant Gazette. Effective on Monday, July 14, I’m unplugging the press, shuttering the windows, locking the door and donating my parking spot to anyone who wants it.<\/p>\n

Blogging has been fun, exciting, frustrating, time-consuming, depressing, uplifting, therapeutic, challenging, anger-inducing and educational. Like life, only a tad less real.<\/p>\n

I’ve finally realized, however, that I’m not any good at it. Being able to string a dozen words together in a coherent sentence doesn’t make one a writer any more than being able to fake one’s way through a few waltz steps makes one Fred Astaire. Further, I have nothing to say about anything that isn’t being said more eloquently and with more credibility in a hundred other places.<\/p>\n

I’ve grown to appreciate and like many of you who have dropped by on a regular basis and left comments or sent emails about all manner of things. Working from a home office, staring at a computer for hours on end, I miss the normal face-to-face social interaction that comes with a more “mainstream” occupation. Blogging helped in that area.<\/p>\n

Some of you have just begun to read the Gazette, and have even done me the amazing favor of adding it to your own blogroll. I feel like I’m letting you down by bailing, and I hope I’m not too presumptuous in relying on your understanding and forgiveness.<\/p>\n

But, in the end, I feel I’ve just run out of time and out of imagination (not that I had much of either to begin with). I’ll not disappear completely, as I fully intend to continue to visit and harass many of you through your own excellent blogs, and I encourage you to perservere, as you are<\/strong> making a difference, whether you realize it or not.<\/p>\n

Blessings on your heads, amigos, and on the heads of your families. Vaya con Dios!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update — years later — Guess what? False alarm! It was just a temporary hiatus.] This is the final entry to the Fire Ant Gazette. Effective on Monday, July 14, I’m unplugging the press, shuttering the windows, locking the door and donating my parking spot to anyone who wants it. Blogging has been fun, exciting,… Continue reading Adios, Amigos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}