{"id":14,"date":"2015-07-11T02:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-07-11T02:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:53:54","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s about time that I get this thing started, eh?<\/p>\n<p>You can read a bunch about me on the About Me page on here, so I&#8217;m not going to repeat myself too much.\u00a0 I decided to start this blog because as a network engineer in a shop that really should have a much bigger IT staff than we do, I run into entirely too much odd stuff, and I feel that it would be a shame to not record it so that future admins and engineers can maybe learn something, or at least get a laugh.\u00a0 Probably at my expense.\u00a0 There is a permanent forehead-shaped indentation in the wall next to my desk.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I don&#8217;t want to limit this blog to just IT.\u00a0 I am a big fan of beer and other adult beverages, and every once in a while I find something that I want to share my thoughts about.\u00a0 In fact, the thing that actually catalyzed this blog and made me get off my ass to make it was a beer discovery.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s something I will talk about some.\u00a0 That catalyzing post will be coming really soon.\u00a0 It will even have a couple pictures in it!<\/p>\n<p>I also plan on writing some things just because I want to.\u00a0 Not IT-related, not beer-related, just Me-related.\u00a0 For example, I&#8217;m rather a fan of SpaceX, and the recent Falcon 9 launch failure was pretty heartbreaking, so I might write something about that.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not an aerospace guy though, so there&#8217;s no danger that this blog will go full-time space-cadet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just something I like that I may write something about.\u00a0 If these side topics don&#8217;t interest you, don&#8217;t worry.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to tag the topic-relevent posts, so you can filter out the random thoughts if you just want to get to the tech or the beer.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enough of an introduction.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a half a bottle of rum and a six-pack of IBC root beer, and I feel like writing.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s do this!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>currently drinking: Cruzan rum and IBC root beer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s about time that I get this thing started, eh? You can read a bunch about me on the About Me page on here, so I&#8217;m not going to repeat myself too much.\u00a0 I decided to start this blog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/?p=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcp-ipa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}