{"id":41758,"date":"2026-02-11T06:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2026\/02\/11\/message-in-a-bottle\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:41:22","slug":"message-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2026\/02\/11\/message-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Message in a bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maggie Smith of <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/podcast\/3cc0b5c0-a87b-0136-7b93-27f978dac4db\">The Slowdown<\/a> podcast on the <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/podcast\/ff2388b0-9a08-0134-90ec-3327a14bcdba\">Make Me Smart<\/a> podcast called writing like a message in\u00a0bottle. It&#8217;s putting thoughts out into the world without really knowing who will read it. Without knowing who or how it will affect others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this blog since 2000. That&#8217;s over a quarter century of messages. Thousands of posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am no longer the same person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a therapy in putting thoughts into an external brain. Journaling is a good way to help process and not dwell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Smith of The Slowdown podcast on the Make Me Smart podcast called writing like a message in\u00a0bottle. It&#8217;s putting thoughts out into the world without really knowing who will read it. Without knowing who or how it will affect others. I&#8217;ve had this blog since 2000. That&#8217;s over a quarter century of messages. Thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","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}},"categories":[256,1217],"tags":[3829,179,528],"class_list":["post-41758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","category-rss-blogs","tag-blogging","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-aRw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}