{"id":14,"date":"2023-12-29T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T07:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:03:09","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/welcome-to-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my blog (Archived version from early 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p>Hello and welcome to my blog.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a regular here and want to find the most recent posts, or are just curious about the order of publication, you might want to check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/posts-by-publication-order\/\">publication order page<\/a>. It&#8217;s also the most reliable way to know about my recent publications.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCurrently, I&#8217;m working on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/journey-in-self-improvement\/\">&#8220;Journey in Self-Improvement&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;ve decided to take my life back into my own hands, and that&#8217;s where I document this.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/personal-miscellaneous\/\">page where I post updates and miscellaneous thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, here are a of my other projects you might find interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/programming-projects\/\">Programming Projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024-learning-to-draw-people-challenge\/\">2024 Learning to Draw People (Manga Style)<\/a> (<i>Currently on Pause<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/speed-reading-challenge\/\">Speed Reading Challenge<\/a> <b><i>(Completed)<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2023-december-in-photography\/\">2023 December in Photography<\/a> <b><i>(Inactive)<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/handwriting-challenge\/\">Handwriting Challenge<\/a> <b><i>(Inactive)<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/chinese-study-app-programming-project\/\">Chinese Study App \u2013 Programming Project<\/a> <b><i>(Inactive)<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to my blog. If you&#8217;re a regular here and want to find the most recent posts, or are just curious about the order of publication, you might want to check the publication order page. It&#8217;s also the most reliable way to know about my recent publications. Currently, I&#8217;m working on my &#8220;Journey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/welcome-to-my-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to my blog (Archived version from early 2025)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}