{"id":5,"date":"2005-08-21T14:35:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T14:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5"},"modified":"2010-08-21T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:44:37","slug":"a-new-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"a new blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi.<\/p>\n<p>This is a new blog.  The main purpose is to encourage people to read my writing, both the two novels which are complete and the new writing I&#8217;m doing now.  I&#8217;m sure I will post about other subjects, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not selling the novels, I&#8217;m not shopping them, I&#8217;m making them available for free.<\/p>\n<p>When I started self-publishing (around 1990), I created little chapbooks and sent them to people (I charged a little money, but it didn&#8217;t even cover the costs).<\/p>\n<p>Then I discovered BBSs (about a year later) and I started posting my writing there.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the internet has certain advantages and disadvantages over both of the other methods, but it does allow hypertext, and I&#8217;m taking advantage of that in what I&#8217;m writing now.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m still learning the ins and out of this blogging software (WordPress), but it&#8217;s very easy to use and install.<\/p>\n<p>I just discovered &#8220;pages.&#8221;  They&#8217;re like entries, but the don&#8217;t scroll off, they appear as links in the main bar at the top, next to &#8220;Home.&#8221;  So, I&#8217;m going to do a page for each novel, like a little summary and plug.<\/p>\n<p>The third novel doesn&#8217;t have a real name yet.<\/p>\n<p>Everything on the site, including the novels and the blog, is covered by copyright.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. This is a new blog. The main purpose is to encourage people to read my writing, both the two novels which are complete and the new writing I&#8217;m doing now. I&#8217;m sure I will post about other subjects, too. I&#8217;m not selling the novels, I&#8217;m not shopping them, I&#8217;m making them available for free. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}