{"id":9,"date":"2005-06-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=9"},"modified":"2005-06-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T08:00:00","slug":"good_to_be_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/06\/good_to_be_here\/","title":{"rendered":"Good To Be Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the veteran AJ bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/\"target=\"_blank\">Terry Teachout<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/\"target=\"_blank\">Andrew Taylor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/\"target=\"_blank\">Jan Herman <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/tobias\/\"target=\"_blank\">Tobi Tobias<\/a> for their warm welcomes into the ArtsJournal.com tent.  Following the launch, I heard from writers, musicians, broadcasters, old and new acquaintances and a couple of long-lost friends. The prodigious pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicawilliams.com\/ \"target=\"_blank\">Jessica Williams<\/a> checked in with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congrats on stepping into a new area of literary critique; before you know it, you might be writing copy for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AlterNet.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">AlterNet.org <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DemocracyNow.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">DemocracyNow.org<\/a>. The great thing about blogging is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou are your own news outlet, no walls. And subject matter is now entirely up to you. Have fun!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m ready to jump back into the daily news grind, but Jessica is right about the freedom of this digital medium. While I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having fun, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try to remember that with the freedom to spread information comes responsibility. (Whoa. Wait a minute. No sermons.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the veteran AJ bloggers Terry Teachout, Andrew Taylor, Jan Herman and Tobi Tobias for their warm welcomes into the ArtsJournal.com tent. Following the launch, I heard from writers, musicians, broadcasters, old and new acquaintances and a couple of long-lost friends. The prodigious pianist Jessica Williams checked in with this: Congrats on stepping into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}