{"id":9,"date":"2010-03-16T02:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rfas.ca\/Blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:54:48","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/9\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I start this thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This being my first blog post, it is quite hard to find something important to say.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll just have to see what rolls out of my fingers through this keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>I have been promising &#8211; no: threatening &#8211; to start this blog so that RFAS is given a dynamic web presence.&nbsp; Our flash website, which was put together some eight years ago, was originally an experiment in learning the intricacies of flash animation (click on link above or at right).&nbsp; I had hoped to be able to update it regularly with images of our work completed and in progress.&nbsp; It was to be an avenue for us to express out thoughts into the ether of the web with a hope to garner some interest in things that interested us.&nbsp; That has long gone by the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>Technology changed.&nbsp; The Internet changed.&nbsp; There are now too many tools to choose from to do what I&#8217;d like to do.&nbsp; So I have opted to get my feet wet in the form of a blog.&nbsp; It is perhaps the easiest thing for me to begin with as it&#8217;s such a familiar format for everyone.&nbsp; As this site expands, I will explore avenues to share our thoughts and our work with the world in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Never being one to say much about myself in public, I do find the whole prospect a little daunting.&nbsp; Facebook has helped me overcome my trepidation &#8211; somewhat.&nbsp; Perhaps more on that later.&nbsp; For now, I will content myself with seeing this blog take its place amongst the plethora of words and images on the Internet, fighting to command a tiny niche of ideas and explorations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll will try to make regular entries.&nbsp; I will also try to get Joys to join in.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This being my first blog post, it is quite hard to find something important to say.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll just have to see what rolls out of my fingers through this keyboard. I have been promising &#8211; no: threatening &#8211; to start this blog so that RFAS is given a dynamic web presence.&nbsp; Our flash website, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorised","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rfas.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}