{"id":4469,"date":"2012-08-20T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2012-08-20T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T10:21:18","slug":"walkingrandomly-is-5-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"WalkingRandomly is 5 years old today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My<a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=7\"> first post on WalkingRandomly<\/a> was on 20th August 2007 and, to be honest, I had no idea what I was going to write about or if I would keep at it; I certainly didn&#8217;t think that I would still be going strong 5 years later.\u00a0 Although I love to write, there is one reason why I keep on pounding out the posts here&#8230;you!<\/p>\n<p>To all commenters, twitter followers, emailers and anyone else who has contacted me over the last 5 years regarding this blog&#8230;.THANK YOU!\u00a0 Without you, I would have given up years ago because no one wants to write reams of stuff that doesn&#8217;t get read.<\/p>\n<p>There are various things one could write about for a post like this.\u00a0 Maybe I could post reader statistics for example or discuss what I&#8217;ve got out of blogging over the last few years.\u00a0 Alternatively, I could go down the route of posting links to some of the posts I&#8217;m most proud of (or otherwise!).\u00a0 I considered all these things but realised that what was most important to me was just to say thank you to all of you.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first post on WalkingRandomly was on 20th August 2007 and, to be honest, I had no idea what I was going to write about or if I would keep at it; I certainly didn&#8217;t think that I would still be going strong 5 years later.\u00a0 Although I love to write, there is one reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking-randomly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1a5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}