{"id":2,"date":"2010-03-10T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-04-30T22:29:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:29:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the urban75 blog, a mix of personal ramblings, random photo features, news and updates from myself and guest writers.<\/p>\n<p>The urban75 blog was created way back in October 2002, and was was an accompaniment to the long-established <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\" target=\"_blank\">urban75 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Running on a basic Google Blogger account, the\u00a0early blogs &#8211; mainly posted from my old Palm Treo phone &#8211; are quite basic, image-free affairs (and rather dull, truth be told).<\/p>\n<p>Happily, as you move through time from 2002, photos start appearing (huzzah!), and the pages slowly get more graphic content\u00a0 in line with connection times getting faster.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0switching to\u00a0Wordpress, the blog has now seen a six-fold increase in traffic &#8211; we&#8217;re now getting around two-to-three thousand page views per day &#8211; \u00a0no doubt helped by the introduction of occasional guest writers.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out more about how urban75 came about, check out our &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/info\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">about us<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0section, otherwise feel free to browse our huge photo galleries, or just join in with the discussion on our busy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/\" target=\"_blank\">bulletin boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be\u00a0informed\u00a0of updates here, sign up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/urban75\" target=\"_blank\">urban75 Twitter feed<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brixtonbuzz\" target=\"_blank\">BrixtonBuzz feed<\/a> for just Brixton news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the urban75 blog, a mix of personal ramblings, random photo features, news and updates from myself and guest writers. The urban75 blog was created way back in October &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PQI7P-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14471,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/14471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}