{"id":192,"date":"2005-12-18T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T20:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/new-readers\/"},"modified":"2005-12-18T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T20:12:14","slug":"new-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/new-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color: red\">New Readers<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p><strong>Welcome<\/strong> and <\/p>\n<p><em>thanks<\/em> for taking the time to read my blog.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you can just dive in and find something worthwhile. If you&#8217;d like <\/p>\n<p>some guidance, here it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Like most blogs, the most recent entry or post is at the top of the first page. As you read\n<p>down any page, you are reading back towards the earlier entries written over 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this seems weird, especially <\/p>\n<p>when a recent entry refers to something older that you haven&#8217;t read yet.<\/p>\n<p>If you are returning, as you read down you will <\/p>\n<p>eventually run into something you&#8217;ve already read. No blog seems to have an effective way to &#8220;show me only things I haven&#8217;t <\/p>\n<p>seen&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>My remarks usually appear like this text. Text from other sources usually appears in black on white.<\/li>\n<li>Entries are also categorized and can be read on category pages (see links to the side of the main column).<\/li>\n<li>You can\n<p>search for entries. See the little search box at the top of each page.<\/li>\n<li>You can bookmark or send a link to a specific entry by\n<p>browsing it first (click the heading over that entry). That takes you to a particular page for just that entry. Then bookmark that page <\/p>\n<p>or send that address to a friend (thanks). Blog-nerds call this the permalink for that post.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m interested in any\n<p>thoughtful response. You can use the comments link for an entry or <a href=\"mailto:mark@mjhinton.com\">write me directly<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>anytime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes, I just want to preserve something I&#8217;ve read and encourage you to read it, too. Other times, I <\/p>\n<p>feel I have something to add, often brief, sometimes sarcastic or angry. Once in a while, I feel more creative or verbose. <span \n\nclass=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome and thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I hope you can just dive in and find something worthwhile. If you&#8217;d like some guidance, here it is: Like most blogs, the most recent entry or post is at the top of the first page. As you read down any page, you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/new-readers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><span style=\"color: red\">New Readers<\/span><\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}