{"id":422,"date":"2007-05-24T06:29:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2007-05-24T06:29:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T13:29:26","slug":"congratulations-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/congratulations-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations WordPress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/signup\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/wordpress.gif\" alt=\"WordPress User Count\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>As you can see from the counter lifted from <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress.com<\/a>, the blogging site has passed 1,000,000 blogs today. Congratulations, it&#8217;s quite an accomplishment. Now the good folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> don&#8217;t need any acclamation from a piddly little web outpost like mine, but I wanted to mention this anyway.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI use <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> for this, my personal blog, and as a content management and publishing system for my businesses. I think it&#8217;s the rarest of all software products: it does what it claims, it does it well, and it&#8217;s simple to use and extend. This is not to say the software is perfect, no software ever is. But it is darned good, one of the best I&#8217;ve ever used and I will continue to use and promote it because of its utility and performance. Great job <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> team, we in your user community appreciate your hard work.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you want to start a blog, use <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress.com<\/a> as a hosted solution or download and install the software for your web server at <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress.org<\/a>. You won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see from the counter lifted from WordPress.com, the blogging site has passed 1,000,000 blogs today. Congratulations, it&#8217;s quite an accomplishment. Now the good folks at WordPress don&#8217;t need any acclamation from a piddly little web outpost like mine, but I wanted to mention this anyway. I use WordPress for this, my personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}