{"id":1,"date":"2016-04-23T17:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-01-31T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:53:16","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"About this thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always <del><\/del>said I&#8217;ll never write a blog because I lack the requisite self-involvement, which is to say that I don&#8217;t consider my merest thoughts to be worth the world&#8217;s attention. Really, we don&#8217;t come up every day with things worth sharing. But I&#8217;ve got a number of bits and pieces piling up on my computer that I find worthwhile, which for one reason or another I can&#8217;t seem to sell to anybody. Mainly, then, this blog is a repository of my orphans. Its title originated in my Boston Symphony note on Charles Ives&#8217;s <em>Ragtime Dances<\/em>. It&#8217;s come to represent my own odd bits, my thoughts and fantasies and feuilletons on assorted subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always said I&#8217;ll never write a blog because I lack the requisite self-involvement, which is to say that I don&#8217;t consider my merest thoughts to be worth the world&#8217;s attention. Really, we don&#8217;t come up every day with things worth sharing. But I&#8217;ve got a number of bits and pieces piling up on my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/hello-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About this thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janswafford.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}