{"id":13,"date":"2014-04-14T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:13:59","slug":"reasons-for-starting-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/reasons-for-starting-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for starting the blog (if anyone cares)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Saturday selfie at the Royal Botanic Gardens #edinburgh by Sofia Gk, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sofiagk\/12249696285\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3804\/12249696285_e9e63650b1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Saturday selfie at the Royal Botanic Gardens #edinburgh\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>So it sort of turns out that I do a number of things in London (and sometimes other places) that I&#8217;m losing count of. Which sucks in the age of\u00a0the interwebz. My old trusty system of collecting programmes works well for theatre (OK fine, and ballet and opera) but not for a lot else. Restaurants for example, or parks, or just strolls around town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting the blog reason 1: Memory (mine)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Additionally I seem to do a lot of different stuff and approach them from my own perspective. I find opera quite nice and I&#8217;m not over 60. I also love the National Gallery and I have next to zero knowledge of art. I eat (a lot) and I am not too snooty to like chain restaurants or shit places with one amazing dish. Also (and this is quite important) being Greek in London gives me a bit of a weird perspective (I like to think so) &#8211; so my choices are a bit weird too. They are always honest too. No pretentious crap, no lies. These are things <b>I do<\/b> and\u00a0<strong>my opinions.\u00a0<\/strong>You are very welcome to disagree (even better if you do).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting the blog reason 2: Weirdness (and honesty)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally I&#8217;ve been blogging (personal, food) for many, many, many, many, many, many years and this is too damn fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting the blog reason 3: Fun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So there.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. Turns out I also cannot find a proper photo of me in front of a London monument, hence the selfie from the Botanical Gardens up in Edinburgh. No London tourist pics? It&#8217;s cause I bloody live here, right? Damn. This has to be rectified.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it sort of turns out that I do a number of things in London (and sometimes other places) that&hellip;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-the-rest","tag-intro","tag-sofiagk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xPqU-d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuffbysofia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}