{"id":1480,"date":"2013-11-26T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-11-26T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T03:00:10","slug":"feeling-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/feeling-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a meetup tonight, to learn how to use WordPress to make money, either to monetize my blog or add my store to it, maybe even combine my 3 sites<\/p>\n<p>Got there late, as i knew I would (started at 7:30 and I don&#8217;t get off work until 8). Walked in to a room full of people speaking a much higher level of Technese than I can dream of.<\/p>\n<p>Only thing I found out was that (a) I&#8217;m on the wrong WordPress site (should be WordPress.org), (b) if I was on the right one, everything I could do is over my head, and (c) they don&#8217;t cater to newbies. They weren&#8217;t mean about it, and tried to sound like they were supportive, but I couldn&#8217;t understand anything.<\/p>\n<p>There is a chance (I could not understand the explanation) that I can install the WordPress plugin on my Hippo Haven site and then use all these plugins they were talking about (again, if I could ever understand what they do and how to use them).<\/p>\n<p>My closest friend who understands Technese does not understand WordPress. So I&#8217;m screwed&#8230; or can fumble through it myself.<\/p>\n<p>You can bet it will be a long time before I go to one of those meetups again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a meetup tonight, to learn how to use WordPress to make money, either to monetize my blog or add my store to it, maybe even combine my 3 sites Got there late, as i knew I would (started at 7:30 and I don&#8217;t get off work until 8). Walked in to a [&hellip;]<\/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-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}