{"id":173,"date":"2005-07-19T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-09-08T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:30:02","slug":"the-blog-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/the-blog-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BLOG BEGINS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just announced to most of my friends that I am going to go on a year-long trip around the world.   Now I guess I really have to do it or look like I&#8217;m chicken. <\/p>\n<p>So Greg Jerrett says, &#8220;You should set up a blog, that would be cool.&#8221;  And I though, yeah, that could be cool.  My trip is &#8220;supposed&#8221; to start in October sometime.  Anyway, I&#8217;m thinking of trying to get out of here on the first or soon thereafter.  I still need to decide where I&#8217;m going a little more clearly, find an agent, get my ticket, find someone completely awesome to sub-let my place and take care of Grover, and get my shit together.   Right now, with just over 2 months to go before my hopeful departure, I am still in denial that I have so much to do.  I DID take the first step:  I got vaccinated.  Hep A, Typhoid, Tetnious, Menengitus, Malaria pills&#8230;.  Cat&#8217;s made a list of Chinese herbs to take along too.   So the ball is finally rolling&#8230;.<\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gregwhitephoto.com%2Fblog%2F2005%2F07%2Fthe-blog-begins%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just announced to most of my friends that I am going to go on a year-long trip around the world. Now I guess I really have to do it or look like I&#8217;m chicken. So Greg Jerrett says, &#8220;You should set up a blog, that would be cool.&#8221; And I though, yeah, that could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/the-blog-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE BLOG BEGINS!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gregwhitephoto.com%2Fblog%2F2005%2F07%2Fthe-blog-begins%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregwhitephoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}