{"id":9,"date":"2009-05-13T23:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-05-13T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T23:52:11","slug":"the-naming-of-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"The Naming of Blogs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t really thought about names when I started out setting this up. I am aware that most blogs have names, but for a while just thought about calling it &#8220;Colin Johnson&#8217;s blog&#8221;. In the end I settled on &#8220;Real Artists Ship&#8221;, a quote from Steve Jobs about the importance not just of doing interesting creative work, but getting it out there (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenlevy.com\/\">Steven Levy<\/a>&#8216;s book <i>Insanely Great<\/i> for details). Two names that didn&#8217;t quite make the cut were &#8220;Talentless but Hardworking&#8221;, a phrase that I&#8217;ve liked for a while; and &#8220;Cakes and Ale&#8221; (after Shakespeare in <i>Twelfth Night<\/i>), more for the attitude than out of any especial liking either for cakes or ale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t really thought about names when I started out setting this up. I am aware that most blogs have names, but for a while just thought about calling it &#8220;Colin Johnson&#8217;s blog&#8221;. In the end I settled on &#8220;Real Artists Ship&#8221;, a quote from Steve Jobs about the importance not just of doing interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}