{"id":424,"date":"2006-03-27T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2006\/03\/27\/birth-of-an-alpha-gecko\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T18:22:29","slug":"birth-of-an-alpha-gecko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/birth-of-an-alpha-gecko\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of an Alpha Gecko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my new weblog, Alpha Gecko. This blog combines a number of old blogs into one (thus all of the content before the welcome entry). Why combine?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many (most...maybe all) of my narrowly focused blogs were not updated often enough to live very well on their own.<\/li>\n<li>I can easily create a place for entries that wouldn't have fit the themes of any of my old blogs.<\/li>\n<li>Cross posting entries that fit into multiple blogs was a bit sloppy--here I can select however many categories I want for a single entry.<\/li>\n<li>Subscribers to one narrowly focused blog are less likely to be aware of my other writings than subscribers to a combined blog (note: you can subscribe to category feeds if your feed reader supports Atom 1.0--I wouldn't have made the move without that capability!)<\/li>\n<li>Moving from Blogger to WordPress gives me more control since I can alter the engine itself. The Atom feeds are one example of a place where I've made a change. Atom \"1.0\" has been out long enough that I think the world is (or should be) ready to ditch Atom 0.3. So I altered the Atom generating script to make it output 1.0 instead of 0.3. Also, I wanted the category feeds to have their titles and descriptions come from the category instead of main blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don't know whether I can claim to be an alpha geek, but as the owner of Gecko Tribe, LLC, surely I am the Alpha Gecko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my new weblog, Alpha Gecko. This blog combines a number of old blogs into one (thus all of the content before the welcome entry). Why combine? Many (most...maybe all) of my narrowly focused blogs were not updated often enough to live very well on their own. I can easily create a place for...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/birth-of-an-alpha-gecko\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atomrss","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}