{"id":1245,"date":"2020-07-09T02:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T07:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2020-07-09T02:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T07:29:45","slug":"becoming-an-online-content-creator-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/2020\/07\/becoming-an-online-content-creator-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Becoming an Online Content Creator&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years and years ago I was inspired to start a little blog while i was in college. I wrote and I wrote and I wrote into what became &#8220;A Fear of Whales&#8221; which chronologed my very long (10 year) process of becoming a full time ordained pastor. I stopped and started, had seasons I was more and less inspired to write. And eventually i stopped completely for years. I had reached the portion of my process that was more confidential, and I didn&#8217;t want all of my undeveloped thoughts to be published just then, and then after that, I was ordained, and the blog just stopped making sense. I was no longer that person afraid of whales. I was preaching in Nineveh. (or in this case, Orlando)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time again to start again. The process is over, the first call is stable, and while I might no longer be well described as &#8220;fear of whales&#8221; I am ready to return to the regular discipline of putting my thoughts on the internet, or at least I think I am. I am doing a lot of other internet content creation this can work with. But I will talk more about that in another update.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings all and I will see you soon, or at least you will see me, in the next article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years and years ago I was inspired to start a little blog while i was in college. 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