{"id":510,"date":"2006-09-02T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T14:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/09\/comments.html"},"modified":"2006-09-02T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T14:20:22","slug":"comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/09\/comments.html","title":{"rendered":"Comments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m turning the &quot;comment&quot; function off on both of my blogs&#8230;at least for now.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I find myself having more meaningful conversations with those who email me, so feel free to continue to contact me that way, I do enjoy the dialogue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are some blogs that operate as a community.&nbsp; Perhaps it&#8217;s because of existing &quot;real life&quot; relationships that exist; or, because of what we know of the author.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t even revealed who I am in normal life on this blog nor do most people who know me even know that I have a blog.&nbsp; Even though I get a fair amount of daily hits to this site, I&#8217;m not ready to take the next step&#8230;though that time will come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I find myself participating less in conversations on other people&#8217;s blogs when I expect them to take place on mine.&nbsp; I want to interact more with your ideas and what you are thinking about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s get back to Facing Race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in the groove,<\/p>\n<p>jt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m turning the &quot;comment&quot; function off on both of my blogs&#8230;at least for now.&nbsp; Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Comments? 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