{"id":1,"date":"2006-11-23T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-12-02T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T12:35:18","slug":"beginnings-are-such-delicate-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/23\/beginnings-are-such-delicate-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings are such delicate times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m a blogger now! I suppose just having a blog doesn&#8217;t make me a blogger its the act of actually blogging on that makes someone a blogger. Which really does make this the most delicate of times; you see I&#8217;ve never blogged before so this is all very new to me.<\/p>\n<p>Blog&#8217;s though aren&#8217;t new to me, I&#8217;ve been reading other peoples blogs for a while and have spent a lot of times reflecting on the views of others but never really having a place where I can articulate my own. I guess for the longest time I <strong>chose<\/strong> to be one of those <em>deaf mutes<\/em>, out of convenience or perhaps it was apathy and a certain amount disaffection with the industry I once loved.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s changed I guess is that I&#8217;ve spent the last six months working in an environment unlike any I&#8217;ve been in before. The infectious enthusiasm of a team of incredibly passionate and extremely talented geeks @ Talis has not only helped me rediscover my own passion for developing great software &#8230; but helped me find my direction again.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess what this is &#8230; is a place where I can share my thoughts, share some of the lessons I&#8217;ve learnt, voice my opinions on anything and everything &#8230; and its also a place where I can blow off a bit of steam every now and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m a blogger now! I suppose just having a blog doesn&#8217;t make me a blogger its the act of actually blogging on that makes someone a blogger. Which really does make this the most delicate of times; you see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/23\/beginnings-are-such-delicate-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[382,399],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-talis","tag-personal","tag-talis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}