{"id":3301,"date":"2011-05-21T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T13:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T21:16:42","slug":"lets-pop-open-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3301","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Pop Open the Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a manual for how to use and get the most out of this blog.\u00a0 Starting today, I&#8217;m going to pop open the hood to show you what makes this baby tick.\u00a0 Some, perhaps younger <em>The Life Literary<\/em> readers, are very familiar with blogs, their structure and use, and don&#8217;t much need this.\u00a0  Others, maybe readers LiteraryLee&#8217;s age (51) or older, are less  familiar.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get a little grease on our hands and take a peek at the various gizmos and doohickys, thingumabobs and whatsis that keep this mean machine purrin&#8217; like a pussycat.<\/p>\n<p>Every day over the next couple of weeks I&#8217;m going to publish, along with the usual scintillating pieces on everything from gardens to words to life in far-flung places and Robert Burns, a  description of one piece of this blog.\u00a0 I will make each of these brief  explanations a link in the tab at the top of the page called, &#8220;<a title=\"How to Use this Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?page_id=134\" target=\"_blank\">How to  Navigate This Blog<\/a>,&#8221; which will become a handy glossary, guiding readers through the blog.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Life Literary<\/em> is a place to find ideas for easy, doable  ways to add words, beautiful, literary ones, into your life. It&#8217;s also  where you can read the things I&#8217;m writing.\u00a0 Maybe this little road map  will be of use as you navigate this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a manual for how to use and get the most out of this blog.\u00a0 Starting today, I&#8217;m going to pop open the hood to show you what makes this baby tick.\u00a0 Some, perhaps younger The Life Literary readers, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[14,452,453,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3536,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}