{"id":1,"date":"2011-08-13T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2011-08-14T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:14:19","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"The Ramblings of an Aging Gamer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tI initially wanted to call this blog <strong>&#8220;The Aging Gamer&#8221;<\/strong>, but I realized a few things&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I am not old.  Yet.<\/li>\n<li>That would give the impression I&#8217;m kinda cranky, and mostly stick to &#8220;<em>back in my day&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; posts.  Hopefully, I&#8217;m going to steer clear of being too negative towards pretty much anything.  Unless, of course, it clearly deserves it.<\/li>\n<li>There are a few blogs already named as such, so to avoid confusion, I have decided to choose something else.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"position:absolute; left:-100%; top:-100%;cursor:default;\" id=\"fb-friends-list\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukeewebdesigns.net\/\" title=\"milwaukee web designs net\">milwaukee web designs net<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tIn the next little while, <strong>Control Pad Blues<\/strong> will become a place to recall something about pretty much every game I&#8217;ve ever played.  I figure this blog was almost neccessary, if only to avoid flooding my Facebook statuses with geeky stuff that would (undoubtedly) get me on many people&#8217;s &#8220;Hide&#8221; lists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBlog on!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I initially wanted to call this blog &#8220;The Aging Gamer&#8221;, but I realized a few things&#8230; I am not old. Yet. That would give the impression I&#8217;m kinda cranky, and mostly stick to &#8220;back in my day&#8230;&#8221; posts&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}