{"id":500,"date":"2006-03-09T20:37:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T20:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/my-500th-blog-post\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T20:37:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T20:37:04","slug":"my-500th-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/my-500th-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"My 500th Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s now been 271 Days since I first started blogging on this Blog and I have now reached the total of 500 posts, this being the 500th one of course, and I must say I&#8217;m quite impressed on how far I&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago I never would of thought that I would reach this far with blogging, I&#8217;ve blogged before but only as small test websites nothing like I am doing now, mainly because I never thought blogging could be so rewarding, I thought nobody would read my blog so why carry on!<\/p>\n<p>But hey the people who come here have now proved me wrong as blogging has changed so much over the last couple of years ago and is now much more interesting and enjoyable both for the reader and blogger especially as it helps you to meet new people (Windows Live Session) and experience the latest on a particular subject, mine mainly being new technology!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll still be blogging for a long time to come so wish me all of the best, now let&#8217;s go and celebrate the drinks are on me!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/03\/500posts.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s now been 271 Days since I first started blogging on this Blog and I have now reached the total of 500 posts, this being the 500th one of course, and I must say I&#8217;m quite impressed on how far I&#8217;ve got. Years ago I never would of thought that I would reach this far with blogging, I&#8217;ve blogged<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/my-500th-blog-post\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My 500th Blog Post&#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-500","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\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}