{"id":159908,"date":"2015-11-16T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/?p=159908"},"modified":"2015-11-16T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:59:12","slug":"have-you-being-blogging-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/have-you-being-blogging-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you being blogging much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><strong>I&#8217;m not sure if you are like me, but do you often get asked about your blogs?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>For me, I&#8217;m asked fairly often about my blogs and where I write them, so hence, I decided to help my audience out with this blog on my blogs&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d ask me a couple of years ago, I&#8217;d have said I&#8217;ve been playing at (<em>and I admit this, as in the early days I didn&#8217;t have much faith in whether blogging works or not<\/em>) blogging but that was until around 18 months ago, when I stepped it up and started writing a lot more &#8211;\u00a0not just for myself, <em>but on behalf of other people &amp; companies under their names too<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, more and more people have asked me if they could see my blogs, so, to make things easier, on this site, I&#8217;ve created a section called <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/read-my-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Read My Story&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(<em>in the menu at the top of this page<\/em>) where you can learn about my blogs and see them all listed. Therefore, in this section, you can see all my blogs, listed per year covering <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/read-my-story\/my-blogs-during-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/read-my-story\/my-blogs-during-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/read-my-story\/my-blogs-during-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>and this year &#8211;<em><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/read-my-story\/my-blogs-during-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. 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