{"id":744,"date":"2010-10-06T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2010-10-04T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T01:44:56","slug":"coming-soon-blog-action-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/coming-soon-blog-action-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon &#8211; Blog Action Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m an information addict, and blogs help feed my habit daily. I read about photography, web design, baseball, nature, video games, science, travel, and of course entomology, and each blog opens my eyes and educates me in a different way. But what if each blog took one day to discuss the same subject, from their unique point of view? That&#8217;s the idea behind <a href=\"http:\/\/blogactionday.change.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blog Action Day<\/a>, an annual event geared at creating a unified conversation across the international blogosphere about a topic important to everyone. This year&#8217;s  conversation begins Friday, October 15th, and will focus on <strong>water<\/strong>, something every living thing on Earth requires, yet which is largely taken for granted in the Western world. To date, 1,600+ blogs in 100 countries and with a combined readership of nearly 13,000,000 people have committed to dive into the discussion, and I&#8217;m sure those numbers will continue to grow this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15336764\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15336764\">Blog Action Day 2010: Water<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4794408\">Blog Action Day<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t solidified what I&#8217;ll bring to the table yet, but I will do my part to get the world talking about water in my own, insect-centric way. I hope you&#8217;ll join me\u00a0 next Friday, and I encourage you to join in the discussion, either through your comments or through your own blog.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an information addict, and blogs help feed my habit daily. I read about photography, web design, baseball, nature, video games, science, travel, and of course entomology, and each blog opens my eyes and educates me in a different way. But what if each blog took one day to discuss the same subject, from their <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/coming-soon-blog-action-day\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,16],"tags":[149,150],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-general-information","category-pop-culture","tag-blog-action-day","tag-water","category-29-id","category-8-id","category-16-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}