{"id":4,"date":"2004-05-28T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/28\/the-reason-for-wp\/"},"modified":"2004-05-28T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T23:07:47","slug":"the-reason-for-wp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/the-reason-for-wp\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason for WP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened with Movable Type on the pintglass server.  I still don&#8217;t know what it was&#8230;could have been something that the webhost did.  I dunno.  But that left me with a choice: I could try to figure out the problem with MT, or I could move this blog to another piece of software.  Since the blowup with MT happened, I&#8217;d kinda played with the idea of moving to different software.  But I liked MT so much that I figured I&#8217;d stay on that old version until it either stopped working, or wasn&#8217;t able to provide the functionality I wanted.  Until then, I didn&#8217;t want to deal with the extra work of figuring out new software.  So MT promptly stopped working.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/14\/freedom-0\">this post<\/a> convinced me to move to WordPress, <em>and<\/em> educated me about GPL software.  I&#8217;ve been happy enough with it, though I don&#8217;t like dealing with the new learning curve.  WordPress does pretty much what MovableType did.  It also does some cool stuff with RSS feeds&#8230;  There is a <strong>ton<\/strong> of development action happening with WP, so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have plenty of things to play with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened with Movable Type on the pintglass server. I still don&#8217;t know what it was&#8230;could have been something that the webhost did. I dunno. But that left me with a choice: I could try to figure out the problem with MT, or I could move this blog to another piece of software. Since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}