{"id":1,"date":"2008-05-28T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bitquill.net\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2009-03-20T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:15:26","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello world!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reason for this site is pretty simple: it is one way to actively establish an identity in the &#8220;global village&#8221; (aka. Internet), which is something I have avoided doing for too long.  Speaking of identity, this blog supports <a href=\"http:\/\/openid.net\/\">OpenID<\/a> which, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openid.net\/OpenID_Phishing_Brainstorm\">some weaknesses<\/a>, is emerging as a long-needed standard. Page footers have links to my identity on other sites; when I find a satisfactory OpenID provider, perhaps those will go away.<\/p>\n<p>Why, in the age of <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\">cloud<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/appengine.google.com\/\">computing<\/a>, would I bother to set up relational databases, CGI binaries, and so on? I could just say &#8220;for the heck of it&#8221;, and it would be true.  I like to see how things work first-hand; for example, I am (still) the kind of guy that actually prefers to run his own <a href=\"http:\/\/hadoop.apache.org\/\">Hadoop<\/a> instance on a handful of machines, rather than use e.g., EC2! Beyond that, I&#8217;m not sure I have a really solid answer.<\/p>\n<p>But enough for a &#8220;hello world&#8221; post!  Welcome, and I hope to see a few people around for things to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reason for this site is pretty simple: it is one way to actively establish an identity in the &#8220;global village&#8221; (aka. Internet), which is something I have avoided doing for too long. Speaking of identity, this blog supports OpenID which, despite some weaknesses, is emerging as a long-needed standard. Page footers have links to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointless","tag-pointless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7x9xm-1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitquill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}