{"id":6286,"date":"2021-10-12T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:07:39","slug":"write-words-press-publish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/write-words-press-publish\/","title":{"rendered":"Write words. Press publish."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One popular trend is to implement a what I would consider a software development pipeline and not a blogging system. I love technology as much as the next nerd, but I do not understand this trend of increasing the dependencies and technical infrastructure for turning Markdown into HTML.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macdrifter.com\/2021\/09\/the-modern-complexity-of-the-simple-blog.html\">The Modern Complexity of the Simple Blog &#8211; Macdrifter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why I still use WordPress despite the block editor being hostile to wanting to type words in Markdown. I look at the plain text options of the world and wonder when it became so hard to turn text into slightly different looking text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be a developer or install Docker and 15 tools. Hugo, Pelican, Jekyll are all needlessly complex ways to make blog posts out of words. There&#8217;s a reason WordPress powers the blogging web outside of walled social mediums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to write words. <br \/>I want to style them with Markdown.<br \/>I want to add the occasion picture.<br \/>I want to publish those words with pictures.<br \/>WordPress makes that easy.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One popular trend is to implement a what I would consider a software development pipeline and not a blogging system. I love technology as much as the next nerd, but I do not understand this trend of increasing the dependencies and technical infrastructure for turning Markdown into HTML. The Modern Complexity of the Simple Blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[110,1464],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shared","tag-blogging","tag-simple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}