{"id":1257,"date":"2016-08-06T23:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"evolution-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"Evolution is Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m retiring &#8220;The Austin Concierge&#8221; after three years of blogging, Facebook posting, Instagramming, Tweeting, etc&#8230;.<br \/>\nIt was an endeavor to test the business viability of a concierge service that just didn&#8217;t get the time it needed. I had some curiosities along the way, but it is time to evolve the site. Quite frankly, most followers were friends who just wanted to know what I was up to or what I found interesting. So out of the chrysalis pops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\">scottballew.me<\/a>,\u00a0the evolution of self, and my social media presence.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not &#8220;Bye Felicia,&#8221; but it is certainly closing a chapter. I really enjoy connecting people and that&#8217;s\u00a0something that greatly expanded because of the site. I really did actualize my strengths and I take pride in that accomplishment. So keep an eye out for what I do with scottballew.me, it will be aligned much more with my personal life. The content on this site will migrate (I hope) and I&#8217;ve already replaced the social media links as I&#8217;ve killed the others. All that content&#8230; Oy vey.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate your time, friendship, and interest.<\/p>\n<p>~Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m retiring &#8220;The Austin Concierge&#8221; after three years of blogging, Facebook posting, Instagramming, Tweeting, etc&#8230;. It was an endeavor to test the business viability of a concierge service that just didn&#8217;t get the time it needed. I had some curiosities along the way, but it is time to evolve the site. Quite frankly, most followers were friends who just wanted to know what I was up to or what I found interesting. So out of the chrysalis pops scottballew.me,\u00a0the evolution of self, and my social media presence. It&#8217;s not &#8220;Bye Felicia,&#8221; but it is certainly closing a chapter. I really enjoy connecting people and that&#8217;s\u00a0something that greatly expanded because of the site. I really did actualize my strengths and I take pride in that accomplishment. So keep an eye out for what I do with scottballew.me, it will be aligned much more with my personal life. The content on this site will migrate (I hope) and I&#8217;ve already replaced the social media links as I&#8217;ve killed the others. All that content&#8230; Oy vey. I appreciate your time, friendship, and interest. ~Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}