{"id":1303,"date":"2015-05-16T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2015-05-21T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:39:44","slug":"and-id-tell-her-keep-up-the-good-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/16\/and-id-tell-her-keep-up-the-good-work\/","title":{"rendered":"And I\u2019d Tell Her: Keep Up the Good Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Postaday for May 16th: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_prompt\/singular-sensation-2\/\">Singular Sensation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><em>If you could have a guarantee that one, specific person was reading your blog, who would you want that person to be? Why? What do you want to say to them?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(This reminds me of the prompt we had back on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/area-man-decides-witty-blog-makes-up-for-mediocrity-in-every-other-endeavor\/\">January 12th<\/a>, but in the interest of writing fresh, I\u2019ll try a different tack.)<\/p>\n<p>I have to believe that Mark Zuckerberg knows the impact he has on liking things. My gut wants me to want Mr. Z to read my blog, because on my blog I mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Night-Without-Sunshine-Jason-Edwards-ebook\/dp\/B00AA3OUCQ\">the book I wrote<\/a>, now and again, and then he might read it, and might like it, and might mention as much publicly, and BOOM! I\u2019d be a best seller.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s pretty selfish, but hey, my blog\u2019s a per-blog, or perblog, or personal-blog, or exercise in extreme me-focusing blog, or whatever it\u2019s called. Still, as they say in the Spiderman flicks and parodies thereof, with great power comes great responsibility. If I knew I had Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s ear, (eye, since he\u2019s reading; you know what I mean) it would behoove me to do more than just champion my silly novel.<\/p>\n<p>Right? I\u2019d have to bring up the ills that face the world and make sure he knows about them and their importance. Since he\u2019s so powerful and can solve problems easier than I can.<\/p>\n<p>But wouldn\u2019t he know about those things anyway? I mean, could I really tell him something he didn\u2019t already know, unless it was about\u00a0<em>me personally?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And yet a man who runs a $200 billion business still only has 24 hours a day to deal with. Who am I to take about even 5 minutes of his waking 960. That\u2019s half a percent of his day. That\u2019s a billion dollars. My stupid book is not worth a billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess I\u2019ve talked myself out of answering this prompt with \u201cMark Zuckerberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlize Theron, on the other hand, seems like a nice person. And she works so hard. If she read my blog everyday, and was somehow entertained, and let slip a \u201cbukkhead\u201d during an ad-lib moment in one of her films, that would be pretty darn cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postaday for May 16th: Singular Sensation.\u00a0If you could have a guarantee that one, specific person was reading your blog, who would you want that person to be? Why? What do you want to say to them? (This reminds me of the prompt we had back on January 12th, but in the interest of writing fresh, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/16\/and-id-tell-her-keep-up-the-good-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And I\u2019d Tell Her: Keep Up the Good Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postaday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-l1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}