{"id":431,"date":"2016-06-05T03:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T08:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-06-05T03:47:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T08:47:42","slug":"why-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/why-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So why did I decide to keep this dev blog?\u00a0 Well, while I do enjoy writing about my projects, the main reason was for publicity.\u00a0 Marketing has never been one of my strongest points, and I really wanted to do better with Aurora\u2019s Nightmare.\u00a0 Well, this blog is the first part of that.\u00a0 A way to start drumming up interest while the game is still in development.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve got more plans later on.\u00a0 The one problem with this blog is that Aurora\u2019s Nightmare has taken a lot longer than I thought to complete.\u00a0 Not so much because of the work required, but because it\u2019s often had to take a backseat to higher priority projects such as my day job, contract work, and now my MFA.\u00a0 And, as a result, sometimes it feels like there isn\u2019t all that much left to write about here.\u00a0 But anyway, that\u2019s the story in a nut shell and I haven\u2019t run out of things to write about yet so keep checking back for new entries every (or almost every) week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why did I decide to keep this dev blog?\u00a0 Well, while I do enjoy writing about my projects, the main reason was for publicity.\u00a0 Marketing has never been one of my strongest points, and I really wanted to do better with Aurora\u2019s Nightmare.\u00a0 Well, this blog is the first part of that.\u00a0 A way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/why-a-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why a blog?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}