{"id":411,"date":"2011-05-18T16:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2019-04-05T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:24:50","slug":"writing-a-guest-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/uncategorized\/writing-a-guest-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a Guest Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dianastevan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cid_sigimg1%40f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"412\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/uncategorized\/writing-a-guest-blog\/attachment\/cid_sigimg1f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dianastevan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cid_sigimg1%40f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1.jpg?fit=456%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"456,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"!cid_sigimg1@f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dianastevan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cid_sigimg1%40f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1.jpg?fit=456%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-412\" title=\"!cid_sigimg1@f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dianastevan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cid_sigimg1%40f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1-205x300.jpg?resize=205%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dianastevan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cid_sigimg1%40f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dianastevan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cid_sigimg1%40f765733703ecc61b79823bc163645fc1.jpg?w=456&amp;ssl=1 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>I find the whole world of blogging fascinating. As a newbie, I&#8217;ve now met people from all parts of the world showing their colors through what they write.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve worked many years as a clinical social worker, I was intrigued by Paula Renaye\\&#8217;s website. She&#8217;s a life coach with a lot of interesting things to say.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my surprise when she asked me to write a guest blog. It gave me a chance to write about a pet peeve&#8211;what popular culture says about women and their bodies. Hope you check it out.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the whole world of blogging fascinating. As a newbie, I&#8217;ve now met people from all parts of the world showing their colors through what they write. As I&#8217;ve&hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[88,86,1,4],"tags":[75,50,99,98],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-therapy-2","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-blogging","tag-guest-blog","tag-life-coach","tag-paula-renaye"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LuVB-6D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":428,"url":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/writing\/a-writers-passion\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":0},"title":"A Writer&#8217;s Passion","author":"Diana Stevan","date":"27 \u0422\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043d\u044f, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As I see my Star Magnolia flowers come and go, I'm reminded again of the passage of time.\u00a0 So, in thinking of all the writing I still want to do, a read through of\u00a0Jane Friedman's Blog was both helpful and timely. 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When I first started writing,\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0423 &quot;Writing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Writing","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/category\/writing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":830,"url":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2012\/writing\/love-and-inner-beauty\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":2},"title":"Love and Inner Beauty","author":"Diana Stevan","date":"13 \u041b\u044e\u0442\u043e\u0433\u043e, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On Valentine's Day, love is in the air.\u00a0 It's what makes the world go round. We all crave it, we all need it, and we all suffer at times for it. We forget that love and inner beauty go hand in hand. When we forget, we need to write ourselves\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0423 &quot;Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Life","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/category\/life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/uncategorized\/blogging-and-social-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":3},"title":"Blogging and Social Media","author":"Diana Stevan","date":"21 \u041b\u0438\u043f\u043d\u044f, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Stumbling upon,\u00a0Kristen Lamb\\'s blog , I feel as if I've been given a wake-up call. Kristen Lamb has written several books on the subject of using social media to raise a writer's profile. 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