{"id":4208,"date":"2013-09-20T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:15:02","slug":"one-thousand-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/one-thousand-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thousand Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/one-thousand-blog-posts\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>[Trumpets blare]<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s a big day.<\/p>\n<p>This is our <strong><em>one-thousandth blog post<\/em><\/strong> at HarryNowell.com.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" alt=\"Welcome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/PhotoTipsWhite.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"424\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Starting the Blog<\/strong><br \/>\nI started the blog in February, 2008 on the advice of a web developer who&#8217;s now my wife.<br \/>\nMy initial response was &#8220;Why would I do that?! Sounds like extra work!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Five years later it&#8217;s become a fun part of my work week &#8211; sharing, connecting and hearing from our readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Blog Post<\/strong><br \/>\nOur <a title=\"First blog post - HarryNowell.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/hello-and-welcome\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F02%2F04%2Fhello-and-welcome%2F','First+blog+post+-+HarryNowell.com')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">very first blog post<\/a> was a bit, erm, uncertain. I had no idea what to write about&#8230;<br \/>\nThe posts got better (phew) and I&#8217;m very happy our readers have stuck with us on the adventure as HarryNowell.com grows and finds new adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Early on in my career <a title=\"David Trattles\" href=\"http:\/\/DavidTrattles.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2FDavidTrattles.com','David+Trattles')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Trattles<\/a> told me to:<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;<em>Surround yourself with supportive people.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for being there.<\/em><br \/>\nWithout <em>YOU<\/em> &#8211; readers, clients and photo students &#8211; none of this would be possible. Your ongoing support and $business helps keep me, blog posts, <a title=\"photo tips\" href=\"http:\/\/primephototips.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fprimephototips.com','photo+tips')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo tips<\/a>, <a title=\"photo newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/newsletter\/slow_photo_article.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fnewsletter%2Fslow_photo_article.html','photo+newsletter')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo newsletter<\/a> and <a title=\"Photo classes\" href=\"http:\/\/HarryNowell.com\/Workshops\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2FHarryNowell.com%2FWorkshops','Photo+classes')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workshops<\/a> possible.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>THANK-YOU.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" alt=\"Thank-you!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/PhotoTipsHarry-6714.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"455\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Nowell &#8211; thank-you!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet [Trumpets blare] Today&#8217;s a big day. This is our one-thousandth blog post at HarryNowell.com. Starting the Blog I started the blog in February, 2008 on the advice of a web developer who&#8217;s now my wife. My initial response was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/one-thousand-blog-posts\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2013%2F09%2F20%2Fone-thousand-blog-posts%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[97,6,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}