{"id":2119,"date":"2011-06-07T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2011-05-30T23:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T13:21:37","slug":"using-quirky-blog-content-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/using-quirky-blog-content-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Using quirky blog content ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is interesting to use a totally different <a title=\"finding ideas for blog posts\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/08\/finding-material-to-blog-about\/\">idea to create your blog post<\/a>. Instead of using case studies, hot news items or client work, for example, you can write a post based on a movie or TV show, something you ate, an overheard conversation or even a product name.<\/p>\n<p>Why use something quirky?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s more fun for you to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2010\/01\/a-blog-topic\/\">think outside the box occasionally<\/a><\/li>\n<li>it gives you a broader topic range to work with<\/li>\n<li>you may just show a little more personality than usual, or a different aspect of your personality, that will help people feel they know the person behind the blog and business<\/li>\n<li>using real life situations and examples is a great teaching tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may use a quirky source but write a straight blog post, of course, or you can introduce your post with &#8220;Hey I saw a movie last night and was reminded&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;My friend was telling me about &#8230; and I had to share&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;I know I usually only write about the latest news but today I&#8217;m going to share a story&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What quirky ideas have you blogged about? How did it work? Share the links to your posts in the comments &#8211; you may just inspire someone else&#8217;s quirky ideas, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is interesting to use a totally different idea to create your blog post. Instead of using case studies, hot news items or client work, for example, you can write a post based on a movie or TV show, something you ate, an overheard conversation or even a product name. Why use something quirky? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,60],"tags":[75,444,1254,1253],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-writing","tag-blog","tag-ideas","tag-personality","tag-quirky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}