{"id":7,"date":"2006-06-28T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2006\/06\/28\/about-the-blog-part-1\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T16:32:37","slug":"about-the-blog-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/about-the-blog-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"About the blog, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got thinking about writing a series of entries &#8216;about the blog&#8217;. A very loose term, phrase, as it could mean: about this blog specifically; or more generally about the notion of a blog; perhaps about particulars like how this one is constructed, what bits of software (hardware even) are driving the blog. Basically a series of entries to get me thinking about the <em>blog as medium<\/em>. Something to get myself writing. Something &#8211; because it is a series &#8211; that I can re-visit, amend, append and expand over time. A constructive text.<\/p>\n<p>Possible topics, possible notions to discuss or highlight, include something like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Specific softwares<\/li>\n<li>The interface<\/li>\n<li>Hyperlink resource<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts depot<\/li>\n<li>Work in progress (immediately!)<\/li>\n<li>Have your say<\/li>\n<li>Right here, right now<\/li>\n<li>One of many<\/li>\n<li>Construct\/Destruct<\/li>\n<li>Who owns this?<\/li>\n<li>Promotion\/al<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay maybe none of this makes crystal clear sense yet, but believe me I want to talk about it all! As long as my head can keep track of it all, I&#8217;ll eventually discuss this and more. For now it&#8217;s more an <em>expect more<\/em> warning.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, it&#8217;s all a question.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got thinking about writing a series of entries &#8216;about the blog&#8217;. A very loose term, phrase, as it could mean: about this blog specifically; or more generally about the notion of a blog; perhaps about particulars like how this one is constructed, what bits of software (hardware even) are driving the blog. Basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"series":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-normalblog","tag-about-the-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}