{"id":623,"date":"2011-09-17T19:55:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hydrogeo.wordpress.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-09-17T19:55:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:55:40","slug":"about-the-best-compliment-i-could-get-or-why-blogging-is-worthwhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/about-the-best-compliment-i-could-get-or-why-blogging-is-worthwhile\/","title":{"rendered":"About the best compliment I could get (or, why blogging is worthwhile)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur geologist, author, and fantastic human being, <a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/\">Dana Hunter<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/river-runs-through-it-sometimes-at.html\">written a post in which she talks about how my blogging has inspired<\/a> an appreciation for hydrology that she never otherwise would have developed. I won&#8217;t quote from her post here, but I wanted to bookmark it someplace special so that I could come back to it when the demands of teaching, research, and parenting get me down. If nothing else, I now know my blogging has made a difference for somebody that I&#8217;ve never even met.<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s part of the power of blogging &#8211; it not only can bring the world into the classroom, but it broadens the classroom into the world. As the theme for this month&#8217;s geoscience blog carnival, the Accretionary Wedge, I asked contributors to muse on education. Amongst many great submissions so far, Dana&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/adorers-of-good-science-of-rock.html\">how professional geoscientists can reach out to amateurs<\/a> is truly inspiring. Honestly, if geoscientists are truly going to make a difference in the world, it won&#8217;t be through journal papers, conference presentations, or even graduate seminars, it&#8217;ll be through reaching out beyond our professional and student ranks to people who are curious and care about the Earth. I sincerely hope that includes most of its residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur geologist, author, and fantastic human being, Dana Hunter, has written a post in which she talks about how my blogging has inspired an appreciation for hydrology that she never otherwise would have developed. I won&#8217;t quote from her post here, but I wanted to bookmark it someplace special so &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[133,362],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach","tag-blogging","tag-outreach"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"ajefferson","author_link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/author\/ajefferson\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}