{"id":73,"date":"2007-03-01T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-30T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T13:59:35","slug":"blogging-makes-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/73","title":{"rendered":"Blogging makes you smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve appreciated Jon challenging our group of misfits to engage in dialogue through this blog. While I can understand why blogging can seem like a chore to some, there are several good reasons to jump in and participate. For one thing, as brain experts Fernette and Brock Eide point out, <a href=\"http:\/\/eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/brain-of-blogger.html\">blogging is good for your brain.<\/a> Simply put, if you want to be smarter, then blog!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI suppose part of this dynamic is related simply enough to the act of writing. As I am fond of telling aspiring writers, \u201cwriting is thinking.\u201d And given that thinking is my \u201cdrug of choice,\u201d it\u2019s not a surprise that I enjoy writing. There\u2019s something very satisfying about firing up those neurons and releasing that natural dopamine high when your brain gets flushed with electrical stimuli kick-started by wrapping your mind around a concept or birthing an idea or mulling over a notion.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the brain muscle, use it or lose it, folks.  So, I hope to see you blogging soon. <br \/>\n<%image(20070217-IGMatrix100.jpg|100|131|Have you fed your brain today?)%><br \/>\n&#8220;If triangles had a God, he&#8217;d have three sides.&#8221; (Old Yiddish proverb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve appreciated Jon challenging our group of misfits to engage in dialogue through this blog. While I can understand why blogging can seem like a chore to some, there are several good reasons to jump in and participate. For one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/73\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}