{"id":659,"date":"2005-12-04T04:40:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T12:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablog.apress.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2005-12-04T04:40:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T12:40:35","slug":"joining-the-apress-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Joining the Apress Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>I resisted the lure of blogs for many years, not really seeing the need or requirement to maintain a constant commentary on my life or the sites I visited. Mostly that could have been because the sites I visited tended to be the same.   However, when I was LAMP Technologies Editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxworld.com\">LinuxWorld<\/a> we were given blogs and I used it as an easy and convenient way to publish material without going through the lengthy process for getting stuff onto the website or into the magazine. <\/p>\n\t<p>As&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ablog.apress.com\/?p=769#more-769\">(more...)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some deliberation I (Martin MC Brown) have decided to join the Apress blog. With over 20 books and six years of professional writing experience I&#8217;ll be using it to discuss some of the issues of writing and share my experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}