{"id":5082,"date":"2013-03-13T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2013-01-14T22:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T05:28:52","slug":"now-we-are-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5082","title":{"rendered":"Now We Are Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10candles\"<\/a>Ten years ago, I started a blog using Blogger’s FTP service to my own domain, which you cannot do any more. Blogs were the cool new thing.<\/p>\n

If you go back and look at the archives (sidebar, scroll down past the blogroll), you will find that my concerns then looked a lot like my concerns now.<\/p>\n

Progress is an illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago, I started a blog using Blogger’s FTP service to my own domain, which you cannot do any more. Blogs were the cool new thing. 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