{"id":7427,"date":"2003-11-29T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2003-11-29T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/11\/29\/blog-diversity\/"},"modified":"2003-11-29T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2003-11-29T17:22:24","slug":"blog-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/11\/blog-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

TS O’Rama<\/a> has some interesting thoughts<\/a> on the diversity of what is known as St. Blogs<\/p>\n

I’m surprised by the diversity within what’s known as “St. Blog’s”. You would think that the self-selective nature of blogs combined with the further grouping of hard-practicin’ Catlickers would lend a certain homogeneity. Sure, the blogs here are all friendly to orthodoxy. But variations within the terrarium are fascinating.<\/p>\n

Those with the broadest appeal, Mark Shea and Amy Welborn, combine sound Catholic understanding with pleasing personalities. They avoid a knee-jerk conservatism or liberalism. <\/p>\n

Other blogs explore the niches – amateur writers earnestly plying their trade, diarists, seekers of camaraderie or support, a half-dozen extremely bright people weighing in on the IOTD (issues o’ the day), a couple prigs (AWOL from St. Killjoy’s), converts and cradles and an uproariously funny ex-atheist, breast and bottle feeders, teetotalers and bingers, and Godly folk here or there whose blogs give off the perfume of saintliness.<\/p>\n

Compared to the homogeneity I expected, St. Blog’s nearly has the biodiversity of a good bar.<\/p>\n

I have noticed the same thing. As an atheist I thought that religion would be small and narrow, not knowing that I had imagined a world so small that I could place my head into it. St. Blog’s like the Catholic Church is wide and glorious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TS O’Rama has some interesting thoughts on the diversity of what is known as St. Blogs I’m surprised by the diversity within what’s known as “St. Blog’s”. You would think…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}