Now and then I’ll be going about my business around Downtown, and people will stop me and ask to talk to me for a few minutes.\u00a0 Lately many of the conversations have gone like this:<\/p>\n
“Downtown will never be a real neighborhood until we have a grocery store.\u00a0 I think you should make that the main focus of your blog, lobbying to get a grocery store down here.”<\/em><\/p>\n “What’s your opinion on the push to open Main Street back up to traffic?\u00a0 I think it’s a terrible idea, with all the cruisers on the weekends.\u00a0 I think you should use your blog to fight to keep Main Street closed.”<\/em><\/p>\n All great ideas.\u00a0 But the thing is, this is MY blog.\u00a0 I have to decide what issues I’m going to push.\u00a0 Up ’til now, the fight against panhandling has been my main one.\u00a0 The work there is not done yet, although the situation has improved.\u00a0 I have to decide for myself which topics to stress.<\/p>\n We need more voices Downtown.\u00a0 Let a thousand flowers bloom!\u00a0 If you feel passionately about an issue, maybe it’s time to start a blog of your own.\u00a0 It’s not hard, and if you do and it’s relevant to Downtown, I’ll link to it.\u00a0 To help you get started, this morning I skipped brunch and created a 4-part tutorial on starting a blog:<\/p>\n Hope that helps.\u00a0 It’s time for everyone with a passion for Downtown to let their voice be heard about neighborhood issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now and then I’ll be going about my business around Downtown, and people will stop me and ask to talk to me for a few minutes.\u00a0 Lately many of the conversations have gone like this: “Downtown will never be a real neighborhood until we have a grocery store.\u00a0 I think you should make that the … Continue reading “Let a thousand flowers bloom: Start your own blog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n