{"id":4,"date":"2013-05-22T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2013-05-23T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:50:22","slug":"welcome-to-the-pacificng-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the PacificNG blog\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we have a blog\u2026 so the question is what to do with this thing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I plan on using it as a place to tell stories about current railroad research, efforts at preservation, and things going on in our community. I welcome suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>The blog comes as the site is going through a technical transition\u2026 We are migrating from GoDaddy to a new host\u2026 you may have noticed the welcome notice\u2026 you may have noted that we went dark for a couple of days\u2026 the photo gallery still doesn\u2019t work\u2026. All of this is the cost of the change\u2026 a change that when complete will be good\u2026 with more options for Andrew when managing the site.<br \/>\nBehind the scenes, Andrew (Andrew Brandon) is working hard in his spare time to make the thing work, and eventually sing (not sing as in Dolly Parton or Merle Haggard, but sing as a web site should)<\/p>\n<p>Our vision for the site\u2026 (this is not new) is an open discussion forum\u2026 questions, answers, thoughts, with a curated back side\u2026 The individual railroad histories, The information on paint\u2026. These will be reviewed, edited, and sources checked\u2026 We at PacificNG collectively believe in footnotes\u2026 We need to trace the source of the information.<\/p>\n<p>We believe by following this model, we can attract the best railroad historians and researchers, publish their work and thoughts, and provide a basic source for early railroad history, mostly narrow gauge railroad history on the Pacific Slope\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Welcome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we have a blog\u2026 so the question is what to do with this thing\u2026 I plan on using it as a place to tell stories about current railroad research, efforts at preservation, and things going on in our community. I welcome suggestions. The blog comes as the site is going through a technical transition\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pacificng-research-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pacificng.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}