{"id":4,"date":"2016-11-04T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2018-01-06T02:13:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:13:52","slug":"lesson-1-sometimes-the-only-way-to-begin-is-to-jump-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 1: Sometimes the only way to begin is to jump in."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was debating adding a blog to my long standing website. Do I have the know-how, the discipline, do I have anything to say on a regular basis?<\/p>\n<p>As with so many things in life, I could spend a lifetime researching,\u00a0but\u00a0in the end it comes down to jumping in and seeing where the river flows.<\/p>\n<p>So I jumped in and\u00a0installed WordPress, and deleted my entire existing site! Immediately my mind was awash with visions of a marathon stint of website rebuilding that would take precious months out of my schedule.<\/p>\n<p>After the initial flood of dread swept through me, I calmed\u00a0down as I realized I had safety devices and could get back to shore. I uninstalled, restored and re-uploaded the site from Dreamweaver, created a SEPARATE DIRECTORY for the blog, and then reinstalled WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 1 learned.<\/p>\n<p>Next, along with\u00a0the long list of overdue updates to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onelifefineart.com\" target=\"_blank\">One Life Fine Art<\/a>, will be to integrate the blog and the site.<\/p>\n<p>Then we will see where the river goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was debating adding a blog to my long standing website. Do I have the know-how, the discipline, do I have anything to say on a regular basis? As with so many things in life, I could spend a lifetime researching,\u00a0but\u00a0in the end it comes down to jumping in and seeing where the river flows. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.onelifefineart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}