{"id":576,"date":"2009-02-16T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T02:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2009-02-16T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T02:31:49","slug":"i-love-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"I love WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took the great plunge.<\/p>\n<p>After almost two years of sticking with my now woefully out of date WordPress version 2.3 for this blog, I finally upgraded (just a little while ago) to the latest and greatest &#8211; WordPress version 2.7.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s quite a leap of faith in free software.  Four entire versions of a software package &#8211; ages and ages in the world of computers.  And I couldn&#8217;t do an automatic upgrade either, because the menu item you&#8217;re supposed to use didn&#8217;t even <i>exist<\/i> yet in my ancient rickety old version.<\/p>\n<p>So I took the great courage leap into the unknown, manually transferred all my content files over onto the ftp directory, edited the config file by hand, and jumped back on in.<\/p>\n<p>And lo and behold &#8211; it works perfectly.  Without a hitch.  All kinds of new functionality, and fancy new controls behind the wheel, while all of my posts and images and your comments went seamlessly over to their new places.<\/p>\n<p>I was so awed and inspired that I took a moment to make the following tribute, an amateurish if heartfelt bastardization of WordPress&#8217;s own logo.  Gosh, I hope they don&#8217;t sue me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hurray-wordpress.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took the great plunge. After almost two years of sticking with my now woefully out of date WordPress version 2.3 for this blog, I finally upgraded (just a little while ago) to the latest and greatest &#8211; WordPress version 2.7. That&#8217;s quite a leap of faith in free software. Four entire versions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I love WordPress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}