{"id":4065,"date":"2012-06-30T23:28:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T06:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2012-06-30T23:28:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T06:28:54","slug":"categorizing-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Categorizing Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel went down early so after I had gone through all my bookmarked blogs, I started surfing around and came upon Patheos.Com<\/a>. A few of the bloggers in my feed reader (Unequally Yoked<\/a> and Barefoot and Pregnant<\/a>) have their blogs there and as I’m an established blogger (almost 12 years of blogging), I’d probably be a good candidate, right?<\/p>\n

Yeah… not so much.<\/p>\n

I haven’t actually submitted a sample blog to them for consideration so it isn’t like they’ve rejected me but there are a few things that would have to be different for me to probably qualify to blog there.<\/p>\n

[+] I’d have to actually fit into one of their channels.<\/strong> OK… obviously, I’m not Muslim\/atheist\/Buddhist\/Jewish\/Mormon so that part is easy enough. However, I’m an anomaly of a Christian. I’m not an Evangelical per se but I’m too theologically conservative to be part of the Progressive Christianity channel. I’m Lutheran<\/a> so I definitely don’t fit in the Catholic or Eastern Orthodox channels either. I could probably fit the Family channel… except that my blog doesn’t always cover family topics (though I keep it family-friendly). I might be able to get in on the Spirituality channel but I abhor pop-culture religion. Sigh…<\/p>\n

[+] I’d have to become better about updating here.<\/strong> I write only about twice a week on average. It’s not that I’m lazy — OK, actually I am most of the time — it’s just that I can sit here and look at a blank post for an hour and have no idea about what I want to write. Doing The Simple Woman’s Daybook<\/a> is easy because I have prompts. Doing Quick Takes<\/a> are harder because I have to find seven salient points on which to write.<\/p>\n

[+] I’d have to be topical all the time.<\/strong> ::Meditatio:: is a blog whose purpose is to provide me with halfway-decent therapy and to “work out my salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12b). While I’m definitely a religious sociologist and it interests me to watch people practicing their faiths and praying, I’m also a mom, a sacred music snob, a cat herder, a khouria<\/em>, a preeclampsia<\/a> survivor, someone who reads whatever they can get their paws on, and most importantly, I am a child of God who is doing her best to give her Father a good name. This blog is about all those things, not just the faith dimension of my life which is very fluid at this point and well… has been since I came to Christ (inasmuch as one can per the explanation of the third article of the Creed in the Small Catechism<\/u>).<\/p>\n

I guess I’ll be remaining here. It has been my home for almost 7 of the 12 I have been blogging and I quite like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel went down early so after I had gone through all my bookmarked blogs, I started surfing around and came upon Patheos.Com. A few of the bloggers in my feed reader (Unequally Yoked and Barefoot and Pregnant) have their blogs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,1,2,25,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-health","category-memes-and-link-ups","category-web-schtuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-13z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}