{"id":1398,"date":"2008-05-09T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:59:58","slug":"so_i_guess_im_an_entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/09\/so_i_guess_im_an_entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"So I Guess I’m an Entertainment Writer Now…"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A couple days ago, I got an email from someone called Amy at something called Blogged.com, informing me that “[her] editors recently reviewed [my] blog and have given it an 8.1 score out of (10) in the Entertainment category of Blogged.com.” Suspicious, cynical man that I am, I naturally assumed that the message was some variety of spam or maybe even a highly targeted phishing<\/a> scheme. However, the fact that everything in the message was spelled correctly gave me the sense that it might be for real, so I thought I’d do a little googling when I had a free moment and try to determine what this Blogged.com<\/a> thing was all about. It turns out that it is indeed a legit operation. This site<\/a> describes it as “an online directory for all the blogs in the world. …a catalog that offers information on the entire blog and its overall content.” Which is actually a pretty cool idea, if rather ambitious (all<\/i> the blogs in the world? How many do you suppose that is? Would it really be possible to catalog them all?).<\/p>\n

I must admit, I’m flattered that my humble little scribblings here (a) attracted the notice of this sort of organization, and (b) that I scored quite highly in the eyes of those mysterious editors, whoever they may be. It’s a nice pat on the head to have some maybe-professional say my stuff is “great.” However, I’m not sure what to think of Simple Tricks being pigeonholed as an “entertainment blog.” I know I write a lot about movies and TV, but I think of this place as my personal<\/em> blog, not an entertainment blog in the sense of something like, say, ScreenRant<\/a> or even Jaime Weinman’s Something Old, Nothing New<\/a>. My purpose here is to write about whatever happens to be on my mind… which I suppose the evidence would show tends to be movies and television. I don’t know… maybe it’s just the idea of being so easily categorized that rubs me the wrong way, or perhaps it’s the notion that I might be somewhat single-minded (and hence, potentially, kinda boring). Anyone have any thoughts on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple days ago, I got an email from someone called Amy at something called Blogged.com, informing me that “[her] editors recently reviewed [my] blog and have given it an 8.1 score out of (10) in the Entertainment category of Blogged.com.” Suspicious, cynical man that I am, I naturally assumed that the message was some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}