{"id":2032,"date":"2008-09-04T19:36:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2008-09-04T19:36:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T00:36:57","slug":"on-my-first-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"On My First Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I logged into my WordPress install this evening, not really having anything on my mind to blog about, until I saw a link to this — Do You Remember Your First Blog Post?<\/a><\/p>\n

WordPress gives me an aggregation of links to some WordPress-related blogs. At one time I had a plugin installed that simply blocked that feature of the Dashboard, but with WordPress 2.5’s backend redesign those links — which used to take for-freaking<\/i>-ever to load — came up quickly, and thus, in the past six months, I’ve reacquainted myself with some aspects of the WordPress community I’d ignored.<\/p>\n

I digress.<\/p>\n

Lorelle on WordPress<\/a>, the blog on which said post above was on, is one of those blogs about<\/i> WordPress I’ve begun to follow a bit more than I once did. (It’s also how I started listening to Charles Strickland’s The WordPress podcast<\/a>, which I think is just absolutely fabulous.) Lorelle’s post was advertising this, a photo caption contest about recapturing the feeling that you had when you made your very first blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latest post on Lorelle’s blog, the one about remembering the first blog post, brought back some memories.<\/p>\n

As some people remember, I did a retro weekend<\/a> about six week ago; I’d found my old Greymatter design, and I brought it kicking and screaming into the WordPress world, partly as a challenge, and partly just to be different, and partly just to be silly.<\/p>\n

My first post was this<\/a>. It wasn’t anything significant. It was a post to test Greymatter and make sure that it worked.<\/p>\n

My first real<\/i> content post was this — I walked in Wal-Mart in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, and found a copy of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report<\/i> on the shelves<\/a>. There are places in the world where you expect to find phildickian short story collections. Wal-Mart is not one of those places. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

Six years, six hundred thousand words, and two thousand blog posts later, and here we are. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And to think — I really didn’t<\/i> have anything I wanted to write about today. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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