{"id":1,"date":"2012-03-02T06:45:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T06:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-03-07T06:29:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:29:26","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I have a job and a life.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s no excuse. I have needed to do this for a while. And this was one of those rare occasions when I let the meme-of-the-moment get a tendril in my brain. The meme in question was Leap Day &#8211; February 29th, 2012. I swear, I couldn&#8217;t remember anything significant about the last Leap Day (2008). And then there was this strange trickle of commentary about this being &#8220;an extra day&#8221; and &#8220;do something special today&#8221;, and I guess it struck a chord.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is. A new blog. I haven&#8217;t blogged in years. And I really want to be not just a consumer of the web, but a creator: a contributor. Yes, I build web sites, but not enough. I read Twitter, but I don&#8217;t post much. I click the &#8220;like&#8221; button on Facebook, but don&#8217;t often comment. I will never be an extrovert &#8211; unless I can control the environment.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like a site redesign and a new blog is a great way to get started on that goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I have a job and a life. But that&#8217;s no excuse. I have needed to do this for a while. And this was one of those rare occasions when I let the meme-of-the-moment get a tendril in my brain. The meme in question was Leap Day &#8211; February 29th, 2012. I swear, I couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}