{"id":60,"date":"2002-08-20T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/08\/20\/a-blatant-attempt-to-get-linked-by-listing-blogs-i-love\/"},"modified":"2002-08-20T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T18:19:00","slug":"a-blatant-attempt-to-get-linked-by-listing-blogs-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/20\/a-blatant-attempt-to-get-linked-by-listing-blogs-i-love","title":{"rendered":"A Blatant Attempt to Get Linked By Listing Blogs I&nbsp;Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, in a blatant attempt to get linked, I\u2019d like to mention a blog that I\u2019ve been reading with great enjoyment for some time now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healyourchurchwebsite.com\/\">Heal Your Church Website <\/a> by Mean Dean Peters.<\/p>\n<p>He muses on church websites, how to make them better, and all sorts of other issues pertaining to the web (particularly the Christian corners of it). Here\u2019s my little blurb about it (for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healyourchurchwebsite.com\/archives\/000081.shtml#000081\">blurb contest<\/a>): he\u2019s <i>a veritable microcelebrity among Christian webheads<\/i>. (How\u2019s that, Dean? <b>note: Dean got back to me and would prefer something describing his site<\/b>: try <i>a haven from the Jesus junk cluttering the web<\/i>, or <i>an irresistible magnet for Christian webheads<\/i>, or <i>casting down every vain website that makes people think Christians are lame<\/i>, or <i>wherein a microcelebrity among Christian webheads preaches good design<\/i>, or <i>giving Christian websites a baptism of fire<\/i>, or perhaps even <i>goading Christian sites to move beyond spinning crosses<\/i>. But here\u2019s my fave: <i>wherein a Christian webhead does battle with the forces of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/search?q=kitsch\">kitsch<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>FYI: here are some other blogs I try to check on a regular basis (no particular order):<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordoncooper.com\/\">Jordon Cooper<\/a>: cool Canadian minister<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bloggedyblog.blogspot.com\/\">Andrew Careaga<\/a>: author of several books &amp; a Charismatic youth pastor I met at a conference<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicoustic.blogspot.com\/\">Nicholette Lockwood<\/a>: a student from <a href=\"http:\/\/smsu-xa.org\/\">our last campus ministry<\/a> (read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/000011.html#000011\">her testimony<\/a>).<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/joshuasargent.blogspot.com\/\">Joshua Sargent<\/a>: an AG pastor who stumbled across my&nbsp;blog<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.net\/\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>: yes, he used to play Wesley Crusher on Star Trek. No, he\u2019s not a Christian. I just find him interesting.<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownefamily.net\/main.asp\">Richard &amp; Christie Browne<\/a>: friends from Missouri<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/\">Joel on Software<\/a>: I just like this guy\u2019s approach to programming<\/p>\n<p>And two metablogs that I&nbsp;visit:<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs4god.com\/\">Blogs 4 God<\/a>: a cool collection of Christian blogs<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogdex.media.mit.edu\/\">blogdex<\/a>: I\u2019m just fascinated by this tool. It\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.yahoo.com\">Yahoo! Buzz<\/a> of&nbsp;blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some blogs I read, along with a shameless attempt to catch Mean Dean\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}