{"id":38836,"date":"2026-03-12T03:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38836"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:20:41","slug":"new-youtube-channel-launched-for-video-versions-of-my-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38836","title":{"rendered":"New YouTube channel launched for video versions of my essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Living-Well-YouTube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38837\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Living-Well-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Living-Well-YouTube.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Living-Well-YouTube-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Living-Well-YouTube-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve experimented with doing YouTube videos several times in the last few years and I can now tell you about the latest experiment.<\/p>\n<p>For months, I\u2019ve been working on a video series about some of the ideas I\u2019m most passionate about, but this is something different. This channel will feature video essays that mirror many of the articles I publish here.<\/p>\n<p>So far, it just has a brief intro and video versions of two recent essays. I have no idea whether enough people on YouTube will be interested in something of this sort, but we\u2019ll find out. I literally just uploaded the two essays minutes ago, so almost nobody knows yet that the channel exists.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The video essays on the YouTube channel are going to mirror the themes of the book I told you I\u2019ll be publishing soon. (<a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here was that announcement<\/a> if you missed it.)<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DavidMcElroyTV-LivingWell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find the channel here<\/a>. I\u2019d love it if you\u2019d subscribe and follow the experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve experimented with doing YouTube videos several times in the last few years and I can now tell you about the latest experiment. For months, I\u2019ve been working on a video series about some of the ideas I\u2019m most passionate about, but this is something different. This channel will feature video essays that mirror many <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=38836\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-a6o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38842,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836\/revisions\/38842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}