{"id":5,"date":"2002-08-22T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2002-08-22T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=5"},"modified":"2016-01-13T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:11:43","slug":"better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/08\/22\/better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Late Than Never"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate to admit how often I have to fall back on the “better late than never” sentiment when it comes to many of the things I do. But once again, here it is…<\/p>\n

Presenting \u2014 three months after arriving in Japan \u2014 my blog, and associated info about my life. The main inspiration for doing this has been to share my adventures in Japan with family and friends back home. But I’ve also been wanting to give my website an overhaul (providing a more personal focus) and am also hoping for an outlet to stimulate some regular bouts of writing.<\/p>\n

At the time of this post, I’m far from finished building and tweaking the site. I’m still muddling my way through learning how to work with Movable Type<\/a> code and other elements of the redesigned site. Bear with me if you run across any rough edges. Please send me e-mail<\/a> if you have any comments or are experiencing any compatibility issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate to admit how often I have to fall back on the “better late than never” sentiment when it comes to many of the things I do. But once again, here it is… Presenting \u2014 three months after arriving in Japan \u2014 my blog, and associated info about my life. The main inspiration for… Continue reading Better Late Than Never<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}