{"id":5081,"date":"2015-02-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2015-02-09T08:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:50:28","slug":"a-to-z-challenge-why-not-you-should-blog-all-april-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5081","title":{"rendered":"A to Z Challenge? Why not? (you should blog all April, too)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"logo<\/a>Every year, I wonder – should I blog AtoZ or not?<\/p>\n

Twenty-six posts in just a month? Crazy!
\nForcing my posts into alphabetical arrangement A to Z? Like a straitjacket!
\nGetting a couple of dozen books deserving a review off my TBR shelf and out to y’all? Priceless…<\/p>\n

So… I said yes. And there I am as #507 on the April AtoZ Challenge sign-up list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are a blogger (or want to become one), give the AtoZ Challenge a try – 26 posts on your subject of choice, going from A to Z during April<\/a> (Sundays off, thankfully). You also have a ready-made list of active and interesting blogs to visit (the challenge folks suggest visiting 5 daily and leaving an encouraging comment – you may find new favorites that you want to follow long-term)<\/p>\n

There’s a new 2015 AtoZ logo, loads of single-letter badges, banners, even a calendar to set as your desktop so you remember what letter goes on which day – all free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My advice after a few years of April AtoZing: Schedule posts in advance, feel free to phonetically pronounce your post title on that darn X day, and include the #AtoZChallenge hashtag and @AprilA2Z Twitter ID when you Tweet out link to your daily post.<\/p>\n

See y’all more frequently in April! Let me know if I should be visiting your AtoZ posts then, too.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year, I wonder – should I blog AtoZ or not? Twenty-six posts in just a month? Crazy! Forcing my posts into alphabetical arrangement A to Z? Like a straitjacket! Getting a couple of dozen books deserving a review off my TBR shelf and out to y’all? Priceless… So… I said yes. And there I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98],"tags":[4,82,55,11,16,31,35,58,8],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflective","tag-belonging","tag-blogging","tag-books","tag-communication","tag-determination","tag-non-us-author","tag-surprises","tag-technology","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}