{"id":2725,"date":"2023-05-13T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T21:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2024-06-21T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T21:53:20","slug":"heather-armstrong-aka-dooce-was-so-very-many-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/heather-armstrong-aka-dooce-was-so-very-many-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Armstrong, aka “Dooce” Was So Very Many Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dooce Was Brave. Funny. Self-lacerating. Self-aware. Bubbly. Withdrawn.<\/h3>\n

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\nAn early pioneer of the “MommyBlogger” phenomenon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And now: dead. Far too soon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many years ago, before the rise of “micro-blogging” platforms basically sucked all the oxygen out of the room and got us on the treadmill of creating content for FREE for giant trillion-dollar corporations … Dooce and Jon were at the same conference in Calgary that we were. The topic was how the fast-expanding “blogosphere” was shaping the way kids grew up & experienced the world.<\/p>\n

We were there to talk about online cyber-bullying, which was starting to be A Thing. And yeah, it’s gotten way, way worse since then.<\/p>\n

Still, Dooce made us laugh when she recounted how she dealt with the Comment Trolls that said nasty things to her.<\/p>\n

Her approach: printing out the very worst comments on paper, taking them into the driveway, and backing over them with a car.<\/p>\n

If only the negative voices in Heather’s head could have been dealt with so expeditiously, and with such humor.<\/p>\n

I knew she struggled with depression, and was far more sensitive than she’d let on. Humor is a surefire way to deflect pain, and works great … right up to the point where it does not.<\/p>\n

She will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dooce Was Brave. Funny. Self-lacerating. Self-aware. Bubbly. Withdrawn. An early pioneer of the “MommyBlogger” phenomenon.\u00a0 And now: dead. Far too soon.\u00a0 Many years ago, before the rise of “micro-blogging” platforms basically sucked all the oxygen out of the room and got us on the treadmill of creating content for FREE for giant trillion-dollar corporations … […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[1044,1041,1042,1043,1045],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-blogs","tag-depression","tag-dooce","tag-heather-armstrong","tag-mommyblogging","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}