{"id":20,"date":"2015-12-23T06:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2017-01-04T07:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T07:26:56","slug":"first-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/first-post\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"transparent\">Let&#8217;s make the first post short and sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"transparent\">While making this website, I questioned myself, &#8220;Why am I choosing to invest time in making a website and writing a blog rather than in other seemingly more relevant activities, such as programming or exercising?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"transparent\">I think there are two main reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"transparent\">UNO. Creating a personal website increases exposure and branding. I am a software developer and want to appropriately display my professionalism in an craft. Also, it feels good to have a personal website, my own 15MB of fame.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"transparent\">DOS. I want to improve my writing skills o and to do so, I will write. Posting my writings online motivates me to write more engaging content each week because they can be read by others. It&#8217;s my aim that in four months, my writings are concise, fun, and thought-provoking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"transparent\">\u00a0Cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"transparent\">Lenny<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s make the first post short and sweet. While making this website, I questioned myself, &#8220;Why am I choosing to invest time in making a website and writing a blog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lennycheng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}