{"id":1739,"date":"2017-02-06T08:18:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:27","slug":"to-bdb-members-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/to-bdb-members-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To BDB Members- A Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a tendency to post short shots with a few images of what is on my mind, to stimulate conversation. I have written long pieces but my life rarely allows that.<\/p>\n<p>I am worried that I am filling up the site with posts and it has never been my intention to be the only person posting. I have no desire to be unwelcome here. So I will pause from posting and ask the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Am I writing too much ?<\/li>\n<li>Is it &#8216;shallow&#8217; and simple and would you prefer fewer but longer pieces?<\/li>\n<li>Do you come here for conversation or to just read the post and move on?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I adapted this style based on a few concepts in attracting people:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A site like this needs regular followers who check it at least daily.<\/li>\n<li>New content of any kind keeps people coming back and looking.<\/li>\n<li>Daily new content is the best way I know to keep them coming.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, fellow BDB members, please let me know if I am hogging the place and messing up the living room with short , half baked screeds.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more, then either ask or give me thundering silence. 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I have written long pieces but my life rarely allows that.<\/p>\n<p>I am worried that I am filling up the site with posts and it has never been my intention to be the only person posting. I have no desire to be unwelcome here. So I will pause from posting and ask the following:<\/p>\n<li>Am I writing too much ?<\/li>\n<li>Is it &#8216;shallow&#8217; and simple and would you prefer fewer but longer pieces?<\/li>\n<li>Do you come here for conversation or to just read the post and move on?<\/li>\n<p>I adapted this style based on a few concepts in attracting people:<\/p>\n<li>A site like this needs regular followers &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/to-bdb-members-a-question\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><br \/>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}