{"id":2227,"date":"2013-03-12T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2013-03-12T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:02:29","slug":"new-blog-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/03\/12\/new-blog-design\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog Design!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it should be immediately obvious to anybody reading this, that I finally got a proper design for my blog sorted out. It&#8217;s been a long time coming, and the blog gets more and more popular over the years, so I thought it was about time I invested in having a theme properly designed and implemented. I admit that I am way too busy with other stuff these days to learn the finer points of CSS and HTML, let alone javascript and flash. it makes much more sense to do what I&#8217;m good at, and use the profits from being more productive to hire someone else. That&#8217;s just good old fashioned division of labour. If I ever go the extra mile and employ people to write my blog too, you know I&#8217;ve sold out. (yes&#8230;some people DO so that&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Quite a few indie devs write blogs these days, and I find a lot of them very interesting and readable. it surprises me that the big companies can&#8217;t see through the legal paranoia and allow their lead designers and coders to keep a regular blog. I&#8217;d love to read a blog by the lead coder or designer at Maxis. I don&#8217;t mean a once-a-month update that has been vetted by three different marketing departments and lawyers, but a real blog, with regular updates on what it&#8217;s like to do that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I digress&#8230; I will have lots of very technical explanations of the inner workings of Democracy 3 coming up. if I ever start suggesting I&#8217;ll code Democracy 4, just tell me to have a lie down, and remember how involved this one was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it should be immediately obvious to anybody reading this, that I finally got a proper design for my blog sorted out. It&#8217;s been a long time coming, and the blog gets more and more popular over the years, so I thought it was about time I invested in having a theme properly designed and<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; New Blog Design!<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/03\/12\/new-blog-design\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/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-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}