{"id":722,"date":"2009-02-10T16:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T23:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2009-02-10T16:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T23:42:42","slug":"to-all-my-fellow-bloggers-keep-your-day-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/to-all-my-fellow-bloggers-keep-your-day-job\/","title":{"rendered":"To All My Fellow Bloggers: Keep Your Day Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fake_Steve_Jobs\">Fake Steve Jobs,<\/a> aka Daniel Lyons, has an article in Newsweek this week titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/183666\">Time to Hang Up the Pajamas<\/a> in which he states that growing rich by blogging is a high-tech fairy tale.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, if you had dreams of turning your Ninja or Pirate themed blog into a money making machine, keep your day job (if you have one).   A few years ago I had a dream of blogging for a living but then I thought about it and realized that posting around 10 times a day, every day time didn&#8217;t seem like it would be that much fun.  Lyons for instance, after posting 20 times a day for about three years, is walking away &#8220;feeling burned out and weighing 20 pounds more than when I started.&#8221;  Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Steve Jobs, aka Daniel Lyons, has an article in Newsweek this week titled Time to Hang Up the Pajamas in which he states that growing rich by blogging is a high-tech fairy tale. I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn&#8217;t one of them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[88,630],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-blog","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}