{"id":12,"date":"2009-08-26T03:41:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologymediapress.com\/astroblogging\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-08-26T03:41:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T10:41:48","slug":"choosing-your-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Your Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is recommended by experts in the field that if you have a web site already, you should add a blogging component to your web site. Word Press is a popular blogging platform that you can install free on your web site. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\">WordPress.org<\/a> to get the download to install.  You have a wide range of free templates to choose from, or you can get the person who set up your web site design to match the blog design to your site.<\/p>\n<p>You can set up a free account if you don\u2019t have a web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\"> Word Press.com<\/a>. With a range of templates, some with uploadable headers, you can set up a professional looking blog. Another popular platform is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogger.com\">Google&#8217;s Blogspot<\/a>. The advantage to Google is its relative ease of use, plus having the advantage of combing a Google e-mail address with your site.<\/p>\n<p>Other free platforms are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/\">Vox<\/a>, Live Journal, My Space, and Stumble Upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is recommended by experts in the field that if you have a web site already, you should add a blogging component to your web site. Word Press is a popular blogging platform that you can install free on your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/?p=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[30,38,41,124,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblogging.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}