{"id":350,"date":"2007-10-30T04:59:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T11:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2007-10-30T04:59:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T11:59:48","slug":"techie-temptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Techie Temptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, I&#8217;m getting curious about techie stuff again. I&#8217;ve been using WordPress, the software that runs this blog, at barely more than novice level, and I&#8217;m starting to wonder what else it&#8217;s capable of and how much of it I could understand and utilize. I&#8217;d like to add a polling system and a real discussion board, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Talking with Mark Evanier in Los Angeles a few weeks ago also re-piqued my interest in the comic book script template I wrote many years ago for Microsoft Word. I released a much earlier version of it publicly, but I&#8217;ve kept the current one under wraps because there are just too many rough edges.  *I* know how to cope with or circumvent its quirks, but I wouldn&#8217;t inflict them on some innocent writer who actually expects software to *work*.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I consider this renewed interest in matters geeky a very positive development. At this point in my existence, I consider curiosity about *anything* a positive development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, I&#8217;m getting curious about techie stuff again. I&#8217;ve been using WordPress, the software that runs this blog, at barely more than novice level, and I&#8217;m starting to wonder what else it&#8217;s capable of and how much of it I could understand and utilize. I&#8217;d like to add a polling system and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}