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	"title": "Explore More",
	"icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2026/36/1960321.jpg",
	"home_page_url": "https://www.exploremore.website/",
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				"id": "http://cjdenbow.micro.blog/2026/09/07/why-am-i-here.html",
				"title": "Why Am I Here?",
				"content_html": "<p>This is not a philosophical question so much as: &ldquo;<em>why am I here on Micro.blog when I have my own website for the past 26 years?</em>&rdquo;</p>\n<p>Something happened this weekend that finally made me rethink my website.</p>\n<p>I was traveling, taking photographs and generally doing what I like to do when I&rsquo;m somewhere new. I kept seeing things that I wanted to share while I was actually there. A photograph, a place, something strange I noticed, maybe just a quick thought about what I was experiencing.</p>\n<p>The problem was that I couldn&rsquo;t easily post any of it.</p>\n<p>My existing website isn&rsquo;t really built for that kind of spontaneous, on-the-go sharing. By the time I got back home and had access to my computer, the moment had passed. I could still post the photograph, but it felt more like documenting something that happened than being part of the experience. This bothered me.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been trying to figure out what I want my website to become for a while now. I wanted the photography, writing, travel, books, observations and random discoveries to live together somewhere. I kept trying to make my self-hosted WordPress do all of it, which meant spending an awful lot of time customizing a website instead of actually using it.</p>\n<p>This weekend made the problem pretty obvious. I don&rsquo;t need another website to maintain. I need a place that travels with me.</p>\n<p>This answers my original question: &ldquo;Why am I here?&rdquo;</p>\n<p>I want to be able to pull out my phone, take a photograph, write a few words and put it somewhere without having to think about the mechanics of the website. Sometimes I&rsquo;ll have a story to tell. Sometimes it&rsquo;ll be nothing more than a photograph and a note about where I was. I want both to feel natural.</p>\n<p>Something between:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress&rsquo;s publishing and archive capabilities</li>\n<li>Day One&rsquo;s frictionless journaling</li>\n<li>a photography archive</li>\n<li>a digital commonplace book</li>\n<li>a field notebook</li>\n<li>and my own weird-ass museum of a life</li>\n</ul>\n<p>There is also something satisfying about starting over. My old site still matters because it holds years of photographs, writing and other pieces of my digital life, and I&rsquo;m not throwing any of that away. But I&rsquo;ve realized I don&rsquo;t necessarily need a new site to be another archive. I think I need it to be where the archive is still being made.</p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s what Explore More is going to be.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/385404/2026/leica.jpg\">\n",
				
				"date_published": "2026-09-07T15:02:48-05:00",
				"url": "https://www.exploremore.website/2026/09/07/why-am-i-here.html"
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				"id": "http://cjdenbow.micro.blog/2026/09/07/peeking-into-microblog.html",
				
				"content_html": "<p>Peeking into Micro.blog</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/385404/2026/2dfd9bdb85b743a08f17cd690b90506c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\">\n",
				
				"date_published": "2026-09-07T12:48:12-05:00",
				"url": "https://www.exploremore.website/2026/09/07/peeking-into-microblog.html"
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