{"id":358,"date":"2020-08-11T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quietlypassingby.me\/qpb\/?page_id=358"},"modified":"2026-01-22T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:05:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qpb.one\/","title":{"rendered":"A Starting Point"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Welcome, weary web wanderer!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This site is under heavy (re)construction and many thing are broken and some things are missing. Bear with me as I restore the site (or decide to dump the entire design and start over!)<\/strong> I fear I may have to manually recreate all of the pages on the site to get everything corrected. So it could take a minute…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 You’ve arrived at my personal blog page, where, as the subtitle suggests, I get to dump my thoughts. What thoughts, might you ask?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoughts about anything I want. My recurring topics include faith<\/a>, technology<\/a>, writing<\/a>, entertainment<\/a> in general, music<\/a> in particular, politics<\/a>, chess<\/a>, guns<\/a>, humor<\/a>, and my favorite category – random thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, this site is constantly neglected by its author (me), as you can see from the many gaps in time between posts, but I try, then I try again, then I try some more. I chuckle sometimes as I look at my logo which claims I am an author and a blogger. I write…just not consistently, or well, according to some of the feedback I get. That’s OK, in regard to both deficiencies. I don’t make money from this site, it is purely a hobby, so I can choose to waste my resources maintaining and renewing it, year after year, every year hoping that I neglect it less than I did the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you watched carefully, you’ll notice that the topics above link to other pages. Using the links, you can jump right to a page with posts associated with that topic by clicking on it. More topics may be added as I continue to update this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you read anything that you want to comment on, click “Feedback” in the main menu to go to a page where you can do that. Comments on individual posts are not enabled, as this just invites junk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Daria Nepriakhina<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Welcome, weary web wanderer! This site is under heavy (re)construction and many thing are broken and some things are missing. Bear with me as I restore the site (or decide to dump the entire design and start over!) I fear I may have to manually recreate all of the pages on the site to get … <\/p>\n

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