{"id":1094,"date":"2005-05-13T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2005\/05\/13\/happy-birthday-blog\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T08:40:00","slug":"happy-birthday-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/happy-birthday-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog is one year old today! It was <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2004\/05\/welcome.html\">started on 13 May, 2004<\/a>. It was actually done as an experiment to see if a blog would be useful to teachers and lecturers with an interest in Computing\/IT qualifications. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-counter-plus.com\/counter\/stats\/hitsbyyear.asp?siteid=29486\">So far the blog has had over 400o hits <\/a>&#8211; that&#8217;s more than 15 hits per (working) day &#8211; so it appears to be quite popular.<\/p>\n<p>The blog was also intended to reduce the clutter in your inbox. Instead of &#8220;pushing&#8221; information to you via your e-mail program (as mailing lists do), a blog &#8220;pulls&#8221; information by (hopefully) attracting you to a website where you can find information at a time that suits you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that during the coming year more people will contribute to the blog &#8211; that includes SQA staff (who can post new messages) and readers (who can comment on existing posts). We really would like to hear from you via the comment facility.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re grateful to you for taking the time to visit the blog. Don&#8217;t forget to bookmark it and come back regularly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog is one year old today! It was started on 13 May, 2004. It was actually done as an experiment to see if a blog would be useful to teachers and lecturers with an interest in Computing\/IT qualifications. So far the blog has had over 400o hits &#8211; that&#8217;s more than 15 hits per (working) day &#8211; so it appears to be quite popular. The blog was also intended to reduce the clutter in your inbox. Instead of &#8220;pushing&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}