{"id":362,"date":"2019-03-02T02:35:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2019-03-02T02:35:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T02:35:26","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a while&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I once had a love for writing. I once had a love for putting together websites. I once had a lot of time on my hands. Time marched on and I found that some of those things went by the wayside and I found myself missing them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one time this site was one of the more visited mountain bike related sites in Michigan. It was a very different time. My kids were all young. Almost all handlebars were skinny. There was a new trend int he sport called freeriding. I don&#8217;t think GoPro had even been invented at that point. Guys rode together and took pictures of everything. In that time, I was writing and shooting pictures like crazy. I had a lot to share. Unfortunately there were some events that just left me tired and in that time the site lapsed and barely any content was added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried to just change the format and just blog a little. I got very busy in life, and felt like I didn&#8217;t have as much to say. Honestly, I was just being dumb. There are so many things in life worth sharing. It may just be a picture or a funny story, but if it touched you in some way, it may touch someone else. I find enjoyment out of sharing things with people and I missed doing so. That&#8217;s why I want to keep going. Will it ever be the same? No. This is an action world now. There are little cameras people wear on their heads and I like still shots. I&#8217;m also nearly 20 years older and can&#8217;t do all of the same things I used to. I also have a number of interests that I want to share about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that, I am just a man on a journey who will be sharing about it from time to time. If you come along at any point, I hope I share something that brings a smile, or encourages you along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12080244_10156022118990063_4801552592733210328_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once had a love for writing. I once had a love for putting together websites. I once had a lot of time on my hands. Time marched on and I found that some of those things went by the wayside and I found myself missing them. At one time this site was one of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/?p=362\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s been a while&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtbmichigan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}