{"id":432,"date":"2004-03-10T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2004-03-10T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T16:34:00","slug":"welcome-to-dresan-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/10\/welcome-to-dresan-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Dresan Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So welcome to <strong>Dresan Today<\/strong> &#8230; a new weblog enabling yet another wannabe digerati to dump his latest unfiltered thoughts to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr., a science fiction author and computer scientist living in Atlanta.  Many of my longer pieces of nonfiction can be found on the parent site of this weblog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/\">The Library of Dresan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It takes me a while to update that site, so this weblog will (hopefully) serve a complementary purpose, giving me a quick sounding board for passing thoughts, cool pointers, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend the following sites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vastandinfinite.com\/\">Vast and Infinite<\/a>, Gordon Shippey&#8217;s weblog. I&#8217;ve known Gordon for almost 10 years and he&#8217;s always got something interesting to say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiosandi.com\/\">Studio Sandi<\/a>, Sandi Billingsley&#8217;s art site. Sandi is not just my significant other, she&#8217;s also a fantastic artist!<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of art, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megatokyo.com\/\">Megatokyo<\/a> is one of my favorite webcomics; also be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/thedevilspanties.keenspace.com\/\">The Devil&#8217;s Panties<\/a>, a webcomic by Jennie Breeden, a local Atlanta cartoonist.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<br \/>-The Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So welcome to Dresan Today &#8230; a new weblog enabling yet another wannabe digerati to dump his latest unfiltered thoughts to the Internet. I&#8217;m Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr., a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-webworks","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}