{"id":5,"date":"2004-09-14T22:27:30","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T04:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=6"},"modified":"2004-09-14T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T04:27:30","slug":"it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"It begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am with my first blog post.  Why am I here?  More and more of my friends are blogging and I&#8217;ve been tossing the idea around for probably a year already.  So here I am, stepping out into the universe of &#8216;blogdom&#8217;.  My goal would be to share who I am (as I am in the process of discovering that for myself) and I hope that others might be encouraged and\/or challenged by the things I am learning along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am with my first blog post. Why am I here? More and more of my friends are blogging and I&#8217;ve been tossing the [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=5\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}