{"id":101,"date":"2000-11-13T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2000-11-13T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=101"},"modified":"2000-11-13T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2000-11-13T11:56:09","slug":"there-seems-to-be-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2000\/11\/13\/there-seems-to-be-a\/","title":{"rendered":"there seems to be a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there seems to be a lot of discussion in weblogging circles as to what makes a good weblog, both in terms of content and design. now, I feel slightly disadvantaged in that I&#8217;m not a web designer or otherwise cool dude, merely some bloke with a blog. but in spite of that, i do have an opinion&#8230;basically, any blog or website is only as good as what the blog\/site owner puts into it. there are countless good websites that have sprung up down the years (I&#8217;ve been using the web since 1995, so I know &#8211; back then we thought 28.8 was fast!), but they have died because people either didn&#8217;t update them, or if they did, they didn&#8217;t maintain the quality of what they put on them.<\/p>\n<p>now, i make no claims for the quality or otherwise of Grayblog. but I enjoy doing it, and one or two people have made fairly positive comments about it, which is encouraging &#8211; and because I have been encouraged, I&#8217;m inclined to continue. which brings me to my second point &#8211; if you like a website or blog, then why not say so? send the site owner a mail &#8211; it only takes a minute. and if you don&#8217;t like it, then a little (constructive) criticism is no bad thing &#8211; but an unnecessary flaming *is* out of order.<\/p>\n<p>anyway, that&#8217;s my opinion. and if you think it is valid or otherwise, then <a href=\"mailto:ghspencer@aol.com\">mail me<\/a>. or not. it&#8217;s up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there seems to be a lot of discussion in weblogging circles as to what makes a good weblog, both in terms of content and design. now, I feel slightly disadvantaged in that I&#8217;m not a web designer or otherwise cool dude, merely some bloke with a blog. but in spite of that, i do have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-very-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}