{"id":2747,"date":"2013-01-06T00:52:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T00:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2013-01-06T00:52:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T00:52:03","slug":"best-of-blogging-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/06\/best-of-blogging-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Blogging 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said a week or so ago that I didn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;d written much on this blog in the past year that&#8217;s worth reading. Well, I&#8217;ve since decided that maybe I was being a little too harsh on myself, as I so often tend to be. After actually reviewing my output in 2012, I still think I&#8217;ve been off my game, both in terms of quantity and quality, compared to the Good Old Days when blogging was a novelty, and everything in the world was fresh and golden. The last few months, when a Friday Evening Video every couple of weeks has been the best I could manage, were especially disappointing. Nevertheless, though, I did find a few entries I think are worth reminding people of. Many of these aren&#8217;t so great stylistically, i.e., in terms of the actual <i>writing<\/i>, but I&#8217;m including them anyhow because I admire their honesty, or they contain a good image, or I simply want to remember the events they mention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My dad makes me laugh first thing in the morning: <a title=\"Just Say No to Anti-Freeze, Kids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2279\">Just Say No to Anti-Freeze, Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li>My dad imparts some fatherly wisdom: <a title=\"The Hardest Thing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2220\">The Hardest Thing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I tilt at one of my favorite windmills: <a title=\"What If You Went to the Bottom of the Sea and Nobody Cared?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2299\">What If You Went to the Bottom of the Sea and Nobody Cared?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I admit to my shameful flirtation with the art of Thomas Kinkade (forgive me, I was young): <a title=\"I Have a Confession\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2300\">I Have a Confession<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Roger Ebert inspires some existential ruminations: <a title=\"\u201cRemember\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2302\">&#8220;Remember&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I observe the centenary of the <em>Titanic <\/em>disaster: <a title=\"100 Years\u2026 And We Still Haven\u2019t Let Go\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2303\">100 Years&#8230; and We Still Haven&#8217;t Let Go<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I recount some bad behavior: <a title=\"Road Rage: A Case Study\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2313\">Road Rage: A Case Study<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I remember this one girl I knew in college: <a title=\"The Girl with the Grey Eyes\u2026 and a Friday Evening Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2329\">The Girl with the Grey Eyes&#8230; and a Friday Evening Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I get lucky with a blind DVD purchase: <a title=\"Sunday Morning Movie Review: Stay Hungry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2333\">Sunday Morning Movie Review: <i>Stay Hungry<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>I try to make sense of the senseless: <a title=\"Aurora\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2595\">Aurora<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I memorialize my home-away-from-home for the past seven years: <a title=\"Moving Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2622\">Moving Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I say farewell to a hero: <a title=\"In Memoriam: Neil Armstrong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2628\">In Memoriam: Neil Armstrong<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I feel pride for myself and my Girlfriend: <a title=\"Little Victories\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2646\">Little Victories<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I reminisce about obsolete media: <a title=\"Cassette Memories\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2654\">Cassette Memories<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Progress makes me sad: <a title=\"And the World Keeps Moving On\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2674\">And the World Keeps Moving On&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Aging and health problems make me sad: <a title=\"Forty-Three\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2689\">Forty-Three<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Weird side effects make me sad: <a title=\"It\u2019s the Little Things I Miss\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2719\">It&#8217;s the Little Things I Miss&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And lastly, I ponder the humble plastic knife: <a title=\"I Think Too Much\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2728\">I Think Too Much<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And with that, let&#8217;s close the books on 2012 and move on to some new business, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said a week or so ago that I didn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;d written much on this blog in the past year that&#8217;s worth reading. Well, I&#8217;ve since decided that maybe I was being a little too harsh on myself, as I so often tend to be. After actually reviewing my output in 2012, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","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=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}