{"id":1,"date":"2006-08-05T23:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-02T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T12:15:00","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"The start of something or nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just managed to install <a title=\"WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> on my new <a title=\"Bytemark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bytemark.co.uk\">Bytemark<\/a> Virtual Machine server.  It was surprisingly easy.  I just wish all web server software installed like that &#8211; copy the directory to the web path, edit a single text file to give the database details and then run a <em>very<\/em> simple two step install process through my web browser.  I am very impressed indeed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be wanting to do more configuration tweaks to WordPress before I really roll it out, such as choose a suitable Theme (and alter it, if necessary, to fit in better with the current <a title=\"Staggering Stories\" href=\"http:\/\/www.StaggeringStories.net\">Staggering Stories<\/a> look.) I also have concern about possible overlap between the functions of our existing (and somewhat sparsely used) forum and this blog.  That requires more thought &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to kill off the ailing forum.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the question of what I actually put in this blog.  Do I really have enough of interest to say, that I can say?  What buy-in will I get from the other Staggering Stories contributors (especially as the two most prolific have recently started blogs elsewhere?)<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell.  Time&#8217;s like that &#8211; a right old snitch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just managed to install WordPress on my new Bytemark Virtual Machine server. It was surprisingly easy. I just wish all web server software installed like that &#8211; copy the directory to the web path, edit a single text file to give the database details and then run a very simple two step install process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-staggering-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}