{"id":33623,"date":"2025-03-26T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33623"},"modified":"2025-03-26T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:59:36","slug":"whither-my-bang-or-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/whither-my-bang-or-whimper\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither My Bang Or Whimper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wirecutter has announced he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ogdaa.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/blog-changes-beginning-monday-03242025.html\" target=\"_new\">retiring from blogging<\/a> after 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, gentle reader, this blog is coming up on 22 years old now.  We&#8217;ve hit one of those periodic spots where I&#8217;m not as loquacious as normal&#8211;mostly just book reports and movie reports and lists of books and movies I&#8217;ve recently bought.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I&#8217;m not interested in writing long hot takes on the news these days.  All the other bigger bloggers are covering that waterfront, and their daily writings are ephemeral.  I&#8217;m not banging out essay-length investigations into culture or substack-length musings on anything.  Just a couple <em>bon mots<\/em> which are probably not all that <em>bon<\/em> but most assuredly are pronounced with the <em>t<\/em> at the end because this is America, Jack.  But I&#8217;m even not rising to much snark these days.<\/p>\n<p>So I muse on the mortality of this blog:  Will I announce a retirement and get one or two comments on the post?  Will I just die?  Will I get the diagnosis and then ask for money or write poignantly on enjoying the life I might have mostly wasted refreshing Instapundit or Ace of Spades HQ over and over?  Or will I just tail off?<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!  It&#8217;s like a cliffhanger, but with less at stake and less interest!<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m going to miss Wirecutter&#8217;s blog.  I&#8217;ve been reading it for a couple of years and have found it amusing and have enjoyed his stories and vignettes of life in Tennessee among the GIFs and memes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wirecutter has announced he&#8217;s retiring from blogging after 18 years. As you know, gentle reader, this blog is coming up on 22 years old now. We&#8217;ve hit one of those periodic spots where I&#8217;m not as loquacious as normal&#8211;mostly just book reports and movie reports and lists of books and movies I&#8217;ve recently bought. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33624,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623\/revisions\/33624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}