{"id":117,"date":"2008-05-29T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.wordpress.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-05-29T12:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T16:32:50","slug":"to-anon-or-not-to-anon-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/to-anon-or-not-to-anon-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To anon or not to anon, that is the question"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started this blog with the hopes that it would spur my own writing, be a therapeutic and creative outlet, and maybe, maybe inspire one or two other people along the way, or touch them somehow. Besides my mom.<\/p>\n

It’s done those things and I’m so, so grateful.<\/p>\n

Along the way, though, maybe my journalistic heart or simple love of attention has been awoken and while it was a conscious decision to stay anonymous (hell, I didn’t even tell anyone about the blog for a few YEARS), I’m starting to want to fess up to who I am.<\/p>\n

There are a few noble reasons for this – transparency (important in my journalistic work and my current government job) but I confess most of the reasons are less noble – I want the credit! And, I want to link this work to my inspired-by-this-work return to publications and writing for broader markets.<\/p>\n

While, no Herb of DC, I’m not Meg Greenfield or Maureen Dowd (shudder, “look at me, aren’t i so feminist in my slinky black skirt and glaring glances”) I have been lucky to be published and … coming soon to a radio near you, broadcast!<\/p>\n

So what do you, my loyal few readers (yes, including now with dc blog-readers of note, welcome!) think? Does blogging anonymously change your experience reading for good or bad? Does it change the writing\/experience one way or another?<\/p>\n

I’m still making up my mind, and like blogging itself, expect this will evolve over time, (I’ll keep doing it til…I don’t) but I’d like to know what you think and do.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started this blog with the hopes that it would spur my own writing, be a therapeutic and creative outlet, and maybe, maybe inspire one or two other people along the way, or touch them somehow. Besides my mom. It’s done those things and I’m so, so grateful. Along the way, though, maybe my journalistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622],"tags":[70,71,107,13,307,519,521,586,46],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-anon","tag-anonymous","tag-blogging","tag-friend","tag-identity","tag-share","tag-sharing","tag-transparency","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}