{"id":405,"date":"2008-03-25T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveenbachwani.wordpress.com\/homeabouthtml\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T09:08:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>blog<\/strong>\u00a0<em>n.<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Also called \u201cweblog\u201d;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A frequent, chronological, publication of personal thoughts and web links,<br \/>\noften having the quality of being a \u201clog of our times\u201d from a particular point of view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About &#8216;BeingDad&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I began blogging in March 2003.\u00a0 However, what started off as a blog on &#8220;Life, Work, Technology and Fatherhood&#8221;, soon became a blog on &#8220;<em>Fatherhood<\/em>, Life, Work and Technology&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the fatherhood posts were a means to write about my experiences as a newbie dad, and to record some of the interesting developments in the life of our first child &#8211; Pumpkin.\u00a0 In October 2007, our second child &#8211; Tiger &#8211; was born.\u00a0 And, I also ended up publishing a book from some of my posts on &#8220;fatherhood&#8221; entitled &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/bundle-of-joy-ebook\/\">Bundle of Joy<\/a>&#8216;.\u00a0 The game was now afoot&#8230; It was time for a whole new blog!<\/p>\n<p>Primarily, in recognition of the unique readership that my posts on parenting enjoyed, I thought it best to spawn-off an independent blog dedicated to my posts on fatherhood.\u00a0<em>BeingDad<\/em>\u00a0achieves just that purpose.\u00a0 The goal was also to make it a bit easier for me to focus on continuing to contribute, in the wake of growing demands on my time from my two adorable children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While, both, my book and this blog are now in the public domain and online, my writings on <em>BeingDad<\/em>\u00a0are also my way of leaving my children some memories of their &#8220;wonder years&#8221;, so they can cherish these experiences for years to come.\u00a0 I can only hope they come to enjoy reading these posts as much as I&#8217;ve enjoyed writing them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments\u2019 Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Differences in opinion are encouraged, but abusive comments will be deleted<\/li>\n<li>Specifying an email address is not mandatory, but will help me respond to you, if needed<\/li>\n<li>Spam comments and irrelevant links promoting your product\/service will be promptly deleted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blog\u00a0n.\u00a0&#8211; Also called \u201cweblog\u201d; A frequent, chronological, publication of personal thoughts and web links, often having the quality of being a \u201clog of our times\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}