{"id":4,"date":"2012-01-31T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-02-16T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T14:44:38","slug":"welcome-to-developer-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Developer Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to start a new blog. One about the odyssey which is software development.  There are many books out there that may lead one to believe they can become a  computer programmer in only a few hours. There are schools that promise to teach you computer programming in as little as 6 months.  These things may teach you some rudimentary programming skills.  They may start you off on your way to becoming a software developer.  But becoming a software developer is not something that can be taught in a few hours.  I might even like to say that I don&#8217;t even know if it&#8217;s something that can be taught at all.  Being a software developer is something that can only happen as part of a long, unending, journey. In order to be a good developer, you must have a deep knowledge of how the computer works. You must understand the foundations upon which the technologies are based.  This blog will be part of my journey.  Documenting that which I find interesting, noteworthy, or just plain fun about software development or computers in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to start a new blog. One about the odyssey which is software development. There are many books out there that may lead one to believe they can become a computer programmer in only a few hours. There are schools that promise to teach you computer programming in as little as 6 months. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/?p=4\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome To Developer Odyssey<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developerodyssey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}