{"id":24,"date":"2011-06-01T06:11:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T10:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=24"},"modified":"2011-06-01T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T14:07:46","slug":"the-first-post-on-a-new-blog-is-always-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/06\/the-first-post-on-a-new-blog-is-always-awkward.html","title":{"rendered":"The First Post on a New Blog is Always Awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my 701st blog post. <\/strong>That seems like a lot, but those posts have been spread out over three different blogs.<\/p>\n

The first one I started back in 2007 when it became clear that, as a guy who wrote books and wanted people to buy<\/em> my books, it was important for me to maintain some kind of web presence other than a static page. So I put together blog.jasonboyett.com<\/a> and jumped right in. You can follow that link if you want, but I haven’t updated anything there since May of 2010, when I brought my blog to Beliefnet upon the release of my latest book, O Me of Little Faith<\/em><\/a>. I started a blog with the same name<\/a>. It was about faith and doubt and questions about religion. I found out a couple weeks ago that my blog was somehow ranked among the Top 50 Christian blogs in the world<\/a> (after Jesus Needs New PR<\/a> but ahead of XXXChurch<\/a>!) using some sort of dubious algorithm, no doubt.<\/p>\n

I’m celebrating that head-scratching fact by shutting OMOLF down. Today is my last post there<\/a>, because I’m trying something new.<\/p>\n

This.<\/p>\n

I’ve lost my passion for religious blogging, but I’m still very passionate about being a good dad. So why not try something new? I talked to the good folks here at Beliefnet, came up with a hopefully memorable and entirely made-up name that (glorious day) still was available as a .com<\/a>, and here we are.<\/p>\n

What can you expect from Dadequate? <\/strong>I don’t know. We’ll figure it out as we go. Probably lots of links to stuff I think is cool. Maybe some background into some of the creative stuff I try to do with my kids. Less religious stuff. More practical stuff. Interviews with myself, because I like to do that. And interviews with other dads…some well-known and some less well-known.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m glad I got this introductory post out of the way, because these are like the NO-FLIPS-ALLOWED warnings on trampolines. They’re required by law, apparently, but dumb and generally ignored by everyone.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ll bookmark the site, subscribe to the feed, comment when you feel like it and tell your friends about Dadequate.<\/p>\n

———–<\/p>\n

In the meantime,<\/strong> feel free to introduce yourself by answering these three questions:<\/p>\n

1. Are you a dad and\/or a parent?<\/p>\n

2. Where do you live?<\/p>\n

3. How often do you ignore the warning labels on trampolines?<\/p>\n

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