{"id":1826,"date":"2011-06-11T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2011-06-11T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:19:44","slug":"6-years-ago-today-i-started-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/11\/6-years-ago-today-i-started-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Years ago today I started this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 years ago today on my 20th Birthday I started this blog with the promise:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;not to fail and to keep this regularly updated as much as possible&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During this time I have certainly learnt that\u00a0keeping a blog regularly updated is quite a task, not only do\u00a0I\u00a0have to find the time to post but I also have to make sure that the content is unique and note worthy of a post. Videos and photos certainly help with this, though sometimes it&#8217;s the raw data that&#8217;s the most interesting. Like my top 10 search key phrases posts.<\/p>\n<p>This blog\u00a0has\u00a0helped me connect socially on a whole new level and has recently helped me promote my Minecraft Server YAMS (Yet Another Minecraft Server) to what it is today, a\u00a0flourished community with people from all ages and origins.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been great to see how the YAMS community can be brought together, here&#8217;s a video posted by ProFoundJed, which is gives of such good spirit within the community.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GBVuDx_Yhus\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s all for now &#8211; I&#8217;m going to post a blog post in a minute with all the YAMS Videos I can find that people have uploaded! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 years ago today on my 20th Birthday I started this blog with the promise: &#8220;not to fail and to keep this regularly updated as much as possible&#8221; During this time I have certainly learnt that\u00a0keeping a blog regularly updated is quite a task, not only do\u00a0I\u00a0have to find the time to post but I also have to make sure<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/11\/6-years-ago-today-i-started-this-blog\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;6 Years ago today I started this blog&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}