{"id":3,"date":"2004-10-28T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2006-09-15T00:24:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T23:24:54","slug":"now-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/28\/now-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Now it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>*stands up and walks to the front of the group*<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi, My name is Eric, and I&#8217;m here because I suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to start writing a blog.<\/p>\n<p>It started off just reading the odd post now and then, then I found a couple that were really interesting so I bookmarked them and kept going back.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started posting comments, and my comments started getting longer and longer, and I kept finding things that, even though everyone else was already blogging the hell out of them, I just felt like I had to chip in and &#8220;add my own personal spin&#8221;, y&#8217;know. Even if it didn&#8217;t really add anything.<\/p>\n<p>So this is why I&#8217;m here. I need to nip this in the bud before it becomes a habit.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s not too late, is it? I can stop whenever I want to&#8230; Can&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p><em>*walks back to seat, sits down, puts head in hands and cries*<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*stands up and walks to the front of the group* Hi, My name is Eric, and I&#8217;m here because I suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to start writing a blog. It started off just reading the odd post now and then, then I found a couple that were really interesting so I bookmarked them and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mouthing-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kleptones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}