{"id":177,"date":"2008-01-05T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T18:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/2008\/01\/05\/happy-birthday-epkphotocom\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T18:33:51","slug":"happy-birthday-epkphotocom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/happy-birthday-epkphotocom\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, epkphoto.com!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I've been running this website for four solid years now.\u00a0 That's right, today, January 5th, marks the 4th birthday of epkphoto.com.\u00a0 Every year this day comes around, and I feel like doing something special, but I never get around to it.\u00a0 Well, this year is different.\u00a0 Today I'm making my new photo gallery system live!\u00a0 In the past weeks I have been working on building a new underlying infrastructure to manage my mounds of photos stored on this website.\u00a0 So take a look at the newly redesigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epkphoto.com\/portfolio\/\">epkphoto.com\/portfolio\/<\/a> to try out some new things.\u00a0 Other than the layout, not much has changed from a user's perspective.\u00a0 The fact that many photos are tagged and drive the tag cloud display is certainly new, but it is only a hint at what lies ahead.\u00a0 Now that I have a better database-driven engine to manage my photos, in the future you'll be able to select your own favorite images, add tags yourself, view the most popular photos, and a host of other cool things.\u00a0 In my usual style, all this is hand-coded, so let me know of improvements I could make as I go forward!\u00a0 Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I've been running this website for four solid years now.  That's right, today, January 5th, marks the 4th birthday of epkphoto.com.  Every year this day comes around, and I feel like doing something special, but I never get around to it.  Well, this year is different.  Today I'm making my new photo gallery system live!  In the past weeks I have been working on building a new underlying infrastructure to manage my mounds of photos stored on this website.  So take a look at the newly redesigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epkphoto.com\/portfolio\/\">epkphoto.com\/portfolio\/<\/a> to try out some new things.  Other than the layout, not much has changed from a user's perspective.  The fact that many photos are tagged and drive the tag cloud display is certainly new, but it is only a hint at what lies ahead.  Now that I have a better database-driven engine to manage my photos, in the future you'll be able to select your own favorite images, add tags yourself, view the most popular photos, and a host of other cool things.  In my usual style, all this is hand-coded, so let me know of improvements I could make as I go forward!  Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p84xAX-2R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}