{"id":5793,"date":"2011-08-07T12:32:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/07\/ten-years-before-the-blog\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T12:32:51","slug":"ten-years-before-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/07\/ten-years-before-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years Before the Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While future historians will undoubtedly remember August 7th primarily as SteelyKid&#8217;s birthday (it would be irresponsible of me to encourage people to go edit the Wikipedia date page accordingly, wouldn&#8217;t it?), there was another locally important event on August 7th, some years earlier: August 7th, 2001, saw my first blog post ever, the inaugural post of my old book log <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/0801.html\">The Library of Babel<\/a>, so long ago it was hand-crafted HTML with no item permalinks&#8211; scroll all the way to the bottom to see the first entry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little hard to believe that I&#8217;ve been doing this blogging thing for a decade, now. Granted, that was a somewhat specialized form of blogging, and was subsequently moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/\">Blogger<\/a>, and then<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/booklog\/\"> incorporated into this site<\/a>, so the more significant blog anniversary will be next June, when this blog turns 10. Either way, though: damn, I&#8217;m old.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably do some sort of retrospective thing next year, maybe a best-of collection of posts. It&#8217;s alternately interesting and cringe-inducing to look back through the blog archives, so we&#8217;ll see how much of it I can take&#8230; But I didn&#8217;t want to let this anniversary pass without saying something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While future historians will undoubtedly remember August 7th primarily as SteelyKid&#8217;s birthday (it would be irresponsible of me to encourage people to go edit the Wikipedia date page accordingly, wouldn&#8217;t it?), there was another locally important event on August 7th, some years earlier: August 7th, 2001, saw my first blog post ever, the inaugural post&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/07\/ten-years-before-the-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ten Years Before the Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53,18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-booklog","category-books","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}