{"id":6,"date":"2013-02-20T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T05:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisbright.com\/bln\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-02-20T00:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T05:40:51","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/20\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I took the plunge and decided to start up a blog, primarily as a way\u00a0practising\u00a0writing, something I&#8217;ve always enjoyed but never made a habit out of. I read a fair number of blogs, but to be honest I wouldn&#8217;t miss most of them if they shut down. I&#8217;ve found a few which consistently produce high-quality content; here are three of my favourites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/articles.html\">Paul Graham<\/a> &#8211; A fantastic collection of essays. I like Graham&#8217;s writing style more than anyone else I&#8217;ve ever read, and don&#8217;t understand why the clear, matter-of-fact style that he employs isn&#8217;t very commonly used. Many of his essays are about\u00a0entrepreneurship, which I am not especially interested in, yet I still find his writing engaging.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\">Scott Adams<\/a> &#8211; Best known as the creator of Dilbert, his blog is a constant source of unique ideas. As a\u00a0compulsive\u00a0thinker who loves kicking around new ideas I look forward to reading his near-daily posts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/\">Eric Raymond<\/a> &#8211; An open-source software\u00a0advocate with an extremely strong ego. The unusual part about that is he actually has the accomplishments to back it up. He writes about a diverse number of things, and his writing is usually interesting even when I don&#8217;t care much about the topic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My intention when starting this blog was to only write about things of interest to me. I had thought that this would necessitate being boring to everyone except in the case where a common interest is shared. Judging from the above list, in the optimal case that&#8217;s not actually true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took the plunge and decided to start up a blog, primarily as a way\u00a0practising\u00a0writing, something I&#8217;ve always enjoyed but never made a habit out of. I read a fair number of blogs, but to be honest I wouldn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/20\/hello-world-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}