{"id":914,"date":"2009-02-23T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/23\/2009-2-23-happy-birthday-samuel-pepys-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:15","slug":"2009-2-23-happy-birthday-samuel-pepys-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/2009-2-23-happy-birthday-samuel-pepys-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Samuel Pepys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hostessblog.com\/page\/118\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hostessblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/uploaded_images\/playfuleaster_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"C'mon, it was obvious.\" \/><\/a>Friends,<br \/>Today marks the 376th birthday of English member of parliment, naval administrator (no, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boudriasgroves.com\/navaloranges.php\" target=\"_blank\">that one<\/a>), and diarist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Pepys\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Pepys<\/a>. Considering that his meticulous diary-keeping documented the Great Plague, the Fire of London, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">and <\/span>the second Anglo-Dutch War, Pepys could be thought of as the father of modern blogging, except without the &#8220;B&#8221; (the &#8220;WE&#8221; is silent, dig?).<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Sammy! You&#8217;re not as famous as Arianna Huffington, but you&#8217;re more famous than Markos Moulitsas Z\u00faniga. Nicely done!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends,Today marks the 376th birthday of English member of parliment, naval administrator (no, not that one), and diarist Samuel Pepys. Considering that his meticulous diary-keeping documented the Great Plague, the Fire of London, and the second Anglo-Dutch War, Pepys could be thought of as the father of modern blogging, except without the &#8220;B&#8221; (the &#8220;WE&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/2009-2-23-happy-birthday-samuel-pepys-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday Samuel Pepys!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entertainment-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}