{"id":748,"date":"2011-04-10T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=748"},"modified":"2011-04-10T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:21:37","slug":"back-where-i-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Back where I started&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after a few months flirtation with Tumblr and Posterous&#8230; I decided to go back to a plain, vanilla WordPress blog. While I liked the style-heavy categorization + brevity of the microblog format (especially Tumblr), I always got a lurking sense of your-site-is-not-your-own with those services, due to the annoying translucent overlays + branding that they&#8217;d drop onto your pages from time to time (c.f. the current banner for Japan Tsunami relief appearing on all posterous sites)&#8230; plus they weren&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> as convenient\/pleasant to post messages to as a wordpress installation is. The fact that my posterous items seemed to clock up thousands(?!) of reads was good for my ego&#8230; but, I think I&#8217;m altogether happier when I&#8217;m in full control of every minute detail. Just call me a control freak \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>The good news is, I&#8217;ve now discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woothemes.com\/2010\/10\/wootumblog\/\">wooTumblog plug-in<\/a>, which adds some very tumblr-like features to your wordpress theme&#8230; so hopefully I&#8217;ve now got the best of both worlds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after a few months flirtation with Tumblr and Posterous&#8230; I decided to go back to a plain, vanilla WordPress blog. While I liked the style-heavy categorization + brevity of the microblog format (especially Tumblr), I always got a lurking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=748\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tumblog-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}