{"id":68,"date":"2011-02-02T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T00:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/?p=68"},"modified":"2011-02-02T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T00:21:17","slug":"to-blog-or-not-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"To Blog or Not To Blog&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that really isn&#8217;t the question.<\/p>\n<p>The question is should I completely pull out my hair trying to get my blog up and running.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, you say, how hard can it be?\u00a0 And so I say, it depends upon how much you have screwed up your blog design in the first place.\u00a0 So now, we must add a bit of background and some color.\u00a0 I have a very simple web design BUT I want everything to match.\u00a0 (My friends know that, yes, I am a Virgo!).\u00a0 So without much time to actually learn how to modify the templates, I jumped right in and customized the blog pages to match everything else.\u00a0 And it was GOOD!<\/p>\n<p>Then, alas, there was a NEW version of WordPress available.\u00a0 No problem says I, I&#8217;ll simply do the update.\u00a0 How hard can it be?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many hours later, I have installed and uninstalled and updated and re-updated all of the customizations that I had.\u00a0 (Yes, I DID keep backups!) Even my iPhone is back connected.<\/p>\n<p>So now, I suppose, I have no excuse for not updating this from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that really isn&#8217;t the question. The question is should I completely pull out my hair trying to get my blog up and running.\u00a0 Well, you say, how hard can it be?\u00a0 And so I say, it depends upon how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/?p=68\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rpeoplesphotography.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}