{"id":2804,"date":"2008-03-20T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2008-03-20T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T21:11:49","slug":"all-things-are-ready-if-our-minds-be-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2804\/all-things-are-ready-if-our-minds-be-so\/","title":{"rendered":"All things are ready if our minds be so: Author 21 doesn’t hold her manhood cheap, and goes once more unto the breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know this post is a private party, completely self-indulgent on my part, but this is my little one year anniversary of becoming a Bloodhound. I don’t do much looking back so I’ll make this short and sweet, well, maybe not so sweet. Here’s the original post that brought me here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The folks at ActiveRain<\/a> are putting together a contest. It\u2019s Pygmalion<\/em> for webloggers, wherein experienced real estate webloggers take eager young blogging caterpillars into their tutelage, and, Henry Higgins-like, bring forth beautiful blogging butterflies in a few months\u2019 time. The winning pair of bloggers will split $5,000 amongst their favorite charities.<\/p>\n

(I predict my favorite charity will turn out to have something to do with stray animals.)<\/p>\n

In any case, I\u2019m looking for a patsy<\/s>, er pigeon<\/s>, er victim<\/s>, er volunteer \u2014 I\u2019m looking for a volunteer to learn the art and science of real estate weblogging with me as your tutor<\/s>, er mentor<\/s>, er insufferable bastard.<\/p>\n

To disclaim is to disclose: I am not the gentlest teacher in the world. But I know a lot<\/em> about weblogging, and I can teach you as much as can be taught about this art, this praxis, this obsession.<\/p>\n

If you are at or very near the stage of being a total wannablogger with a will to make the leap to something that can blow kisses at true greatness, you\u2019re my ideal candidate. I love you best in Phoenix, but if you\u2019re not here, you\u2019re just not here.<\/p>\n

If you want to learn to do real estate weblogging wisely and well, with style, with grace, with humor and panache \u2014 I\u2019m your<\/em> volunteer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To me, that looked like fun. Did I say that out loud? It isn’t supposed to be fun here, is it? It’s serious business on the Bloodhound Blog, right? Bloodhounds don’t have fun, nor do they have a sense of humor, do they? If that’s what you think, or if there is some part of “insufferable bastard” you don’t understand, please go away, this isn’t for you.<\/p>\n

The end of Project Blogger would have been the perfect time for me to make a graceful exit, but they couldn’t Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To me, that looked like fun. Did I say that out loud? It isn’t supposed to be fun here, is it? It’s serious business on the Bloodhound Blog, right? Bloodhounds don’t have fun, nor do they have a sense of humor, do they? If that’s what you think, or if there is some part of “insufferable bastard” you don’t understand, please go away, this isn’t for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[62,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":358,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/358\/radio-daze-phoenix-area-real-estate-webloggers-make-a-five-theater-assault-on-the-market\/","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":0},"title":"Radio daze: Phoenix-area real estate webloggers make a five theater assault on the market . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Three Phoenix-area webloggers, Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy, John Wake of Arizona Real Estate Notebook, and Greg Swann of BloodhoundBlog, helped turn a radio show into a five-media event: The radio broadcast itself, listener call-in questions, live weblogging with listener call-in and write-in questions, an on-line podcast and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2644,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2644\/living-up-to-the-bloodhoundblog-mission-statement-were-everything-you-wish-were-in-realtor-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":1},"title":"Living up to the BloodhoundBlog mission statement: We’re everything you wish were in Realtor magazine","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is our mission statement:BloodhoundBlog is everything you wish were in Realtor magazine \u2014 but isn\u2019t.Damned if it ain't the gospel truth! 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