{"id":1901,"date":"2015-01-03T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T19:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2015-01-03T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T19:21:33","slug":"you-found-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/03\/you-found-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You found me …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"arriving\"<\/a>… and I’m so<\/em> glad! I’d been thinking of moving my blog for some time. I wasn’t unhappy with Blogspot, of course, but I do have a private\u00a0domain, and it supports WordPress. It just seemed logical to take advantage of that, so here I am, along with all of my previous posts. \ud83d\ude42 I’ve never used WordPress before, so the learning curve has been pretty steep, beginning with finding a theme that did most of what I wanted. LOL! I must have “test driven” a dozen or more before settling on this one\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and I’m still not sure how to\u00a0do some things.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ll stick with me in my new spot as I work out the kinks and get back to a somewhat more regular schedule of posting. Not that I’ve ever been all that regular, of course, but I do try. LOL!<\/p>\n

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… and I’m so glad! I’d been thinking of moving my blog for some time. I wasn’t unhappy with Blogspot, of course, but I do have a private\u00a0domain, and it supports WordPress. 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