{"id":823,"date":"2006-08-24T01:21:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T09:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2009-08-08T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T23:53:04","slug":"goodbye-mt-hello-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/goodbye-mt-hello-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye MT, hello WordPress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After almost 3 years on the Movable Type bandwagon, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finally hopped off and switched to WordPress. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a conscious decision \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it just so happened that my new webhost offered a 1-click installation for WP, and after struggling to remember how to set up an MT blog, I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153screw it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and tried out WP. <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thrilled ever since. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to have to do a little more tweaking to get everything behaving the way I want, but all in all, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite happy. Setup was a breeze, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m discovering more and more nifty plugins to expand WP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extensibility, and I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gotten a single spam message yet! So far, it feels like a happy medium between something as easy-to-use like Blogger and something as complicated and powerful as Movable Type.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After almost 3 years on the Movable Type bandwagon, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finally hopped off and switched to WordPress. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a conscious decision \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it just so happened that my new webhost offered a 1-click installation for WP, and after struggling to remember how to set up an MT blog, I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153screw it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and tried &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/goodbye-mt-hello-wordpress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye MT, hello WordPress!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}