{"id":207,"date":"2009-07-23T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theutahhostage.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-07-23T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T05:35:00","slug":"updated-blog-hop-09-from-the-perspective-of-a-not-so-noob-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theutahhostage.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"*Updated* Blog Hop &#8217;09 from the perspective of a (not so) noob blogger."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Reading all kinds of blog posts &amp; tweets about BlogHer &#8217;09, I was jealous. I admit it. I wish I was there hangin&#8217; with the big dogs, partyin&#8217; like it&#8217;s 1999, &amp; learning from the best. Not this year, though. After finding out about it fairly late, I 1st ticked off the reasons of why I wasn&#8217;t worthy to attend &amp; then said, &#8220;Screw it. I&#8217;m totally worthy!&#8221; But then, my mental birthday block temporarily lifted and I remembered that the cruise for my 40th is coming up. BlogHer had to take a back seat this year.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">So here I am playin&#8217; Bejeweled Blitz with the green-eyed monster. And I&#8217;m not alone. I don&#8217;t blame the others either; Bejeweled Blitz is the bomb. The good news is we&#8217;re not left out. We can party from home and it&#8217;s even better, cuz we don&#8217;t have to spend all the money to go to Chicago. We can even party in our pj&#8217;s! What&#8217;s better than that? Come join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensieve.me\/2009\/07\/blog-hop-09hop-til-you-drop.html\">Blog Hop &#8217;09<\/a> &amp; meet lots of other bloggers out there. I&#8217;m definitely not gonna miss this!<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensieve.me\/2009\/07\/blog-hop-09hop-til-you-drop.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361530428688740146\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_7R508gLP3Gw\/Smf7hK5wrzI\/AAAAAAAAAD8\/MDLih6PsP5Y\/s400\/6a00d8341c61d153ef01157127b3dd970c-350wi.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 306px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Update<\/b> &#8211; I just now caught that I had put Blog Hop &#8217;90 in my title instead of &#8217;09. The fact that I caught that after tossin&#8217; back a few just might be scary. Hmmmmm&#8230;..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading all kinds of blog posts &amp; tweets about BlogHer &#8217;09, I was jealous. I admit it. 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After finding out about it fairly late, I 1st ticked off the reasons of why &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theutahhostage.com\/?p=207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">*Updated* Blog Hop &#8217;09 from the perspective of a (not so) noob blogger.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[39,38,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-friends-can-save-you-or-commit-you","category-the-internet-has-brainwashed-me","category-the-method-to-my-madness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>*Updated* Blog Hop &#039;09 from the perspective of a (not so) noob blogger. - Tales of a Former Utah Hostage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/theutahhostage.com\/?p=207\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"*Updated* Blog Hop &#039;09 from the perspective of a (not so) noob blogger. - Tales of a Former Utah Hostage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reading all kinds of blog posts &amp; tweets about BlogHer &#8217;09, I was jealous. 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