{"id":1386,"date":"2006-10-30T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2006-10-30T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T18:46:37","slug":"welcome_n00bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, N00bs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed an ever-so-slight uptick in traffic to this site, some of which is probably due to Bethany Broadwell’s mention of me in a recent article about blogging<\/a> that appeared in Quest magazine. Thanks for the mention, Bethany. But with new readers always comes a bit of performance anxiety. I feel like I need to be particularly clever and witty–at least for a few days–or else newcomers will shrug and click their way to some distant corner of the internets, never to return. And we all know that my sense of self-worth is intrinsically tied to the number of hits I get each day. <\/p>\n

New readers will also quickly learn that I post links to stories about research into neural implants<\/a> with annoying frequency. Oh, and I tend to post glowing reviews of any concert involving a band that has a hot female lead singer. I’m sure veteran readers can offer more comments regarding my assorted blogging idiosyncrasies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed an ever-so-slight uptick in traffic to this site, some of which is probably due to Bethany Broadwell’s mention of me in a recent article about blogging that appeared in Quest magazine. Thanks for the mention, Bethany. But with new readers always comes a bit of performance anxiety. I feel like I need to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-mm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}