{"id":5430,"date":"2023-01-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2022-12-30T13:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:03:55","slug":"four-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5430","title":{"rendered":"Four Years and counting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today marks the end of four years of daily blogging: inspired by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Godin<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heatherholleman.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Holleman<\/a>, I committed to publishing a blog every day beginning January 6, 2019. By my count, 1468 blogs in 1461 days. Thank YOU for reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=281\" target=\"_blank\">My first blog<\/a> in this string was about Simeon&#8217;s daily obedience, and it turns out that&#8217;s what daily blogging is. Just show up and write. (Full disclosure, I do not say that I <em>write <\/em>a blog every day; I <em>publish <\/em>a blog every day &#8211; sometimes I write ahead.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing every day actually takes the pressure off. I don&#8217;t expect (and I hope you don&#8217;t either) every blog to be a masterpiece. I created the <strong>Ewellogy <\/strong>in January 2014, and in the five years from then until I started daily blogging, I wrote 32 blogs.  On average, one blog every 8 weeks. I&#8217;m not any smarter now than I was then, but now I write 56 blogs in 8 weeks. One reason is the commitment. The other reason is that I don&#8217;t sit around waiting for the perfect idea. A friend of mine said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The perfect is the enemy of the good.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so I write. Sometimes from what I see in my daily Bible readings; sometimes from something going on in the culture; sometimes to challenge us on an aspect of discipleship or disciple-making. I take part of my commission from what Jesus said to the apostle John:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Write what you see in a book and send it to the&#8230;churches&#8230; (Revelation 1.11, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the end of four years of daily blogging: inspired by Seth Godin and Heather Holleman, I committed to publishing a blog every day beginning January 6, 2019. By my count, 1468 blogs in 1461 days. Thank YOU for reading! My first blog in this string was about Simeon&#8217;s daily obedience, and it turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Years and counting&#8230;<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1pA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5450,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}