{"id":1575,"date":"2013-08-27T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T01:44:08","slug":"making-ripples-is-now-on-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Making Ripples is now on WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is almost 10 years old and I migrated it from Typepad today so that I could update it as easily as my other websites. This will enable me to update it on a regular basis and share the good things we see and experience in Floyd County.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason for the upgrade is that I can now provide a search function which will search the 1498 posts and produce instant results. Without a working search function, the main value of a blog, the capture of history,\u00a0 is missing.<\/p>\n<p>I can search for life in Palmyra where we used to live and come up with this timeless moment which will shine forever in my memory:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1480\" rel=\"bookmark\">Life in Palmyra<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>Posted on <a title=\"9:51 pm\" href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1480\" rel=\"bookmark\">October 30, 2003<\/a> by <a title=\"View all posts by David St Lawrence\" href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?author=2\">David St Lawrence<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/August-Palmyra.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 20px; border: 0px none;\" alt=\"August-Palmyra\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/August-Palmyra-thumb.JPG\" width=\"225\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008b8b;\"><sup>Click on image to enlarge<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, while trying to effect changes at Sun Microsystems, I thought to myself that there had to be more to life than endless meetings and glacial progress on programs of doubtful longevity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1480\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This new version of the website is still being tweaked, so I am open to any suggestions that will make it easier to use. Thanks for sticking with me through the long drought of new posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is almost 10 years old and I migrated it from Typepad today so that I could update it as easily as my other websites. This will enable me to update it on a regular basis and share the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1575\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1834],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-pp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}