{"id":6,"date":"2021-02-06T05:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T05:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2024-01-11T19:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T06:55:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is <em>yet another web site<\/em>\u2122 from me, Allister Jenks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About &#8220;Digital Gardening&#8221;&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This site began life in early 2021 as <em>yet another blog<\/em>\u2122 as all of my general, personal web sites have been since 2005. Late in 2021 I first heard about <em>Digital Gardening<\/em> and the idea intrigued me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/maggieappleton.com\/garden-history\" target=\"_blank\">read about Digital Gardening here<\/a>, as I did. It explains many concepts and how they evolved, but my interpretation boils down to these key points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The passage of time is not the <em>structure<\/em> of the content. All of the content continues to exist in the space that is right for it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where blog posts are <em>sometimes<\/em> updated, complete with &#8216;Updated!&#8217; emblazoned on them, a Digital Gardening site <em>expects that any content will change over time<\/em>. For this reason, every page has the date it was <em>planted<\/em> (created) and the date it was last <em>tended<\/em> (updated). These details are baked into the page, so you know how fresh the content is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the site linked above, I have marked the &#8216;state&#8217; of my articles with one of four markers, so you get a sense of how &#8216;final&#8217; I consider each to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf31 Seedling \u2014 The early formations of an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf3f Budding \u2014 A mostly formed idea, but I can see it will change or needs expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf33 Evergreen \u2014 A fully formed idea. A lot of these will be the simpler stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf42 Out of Season \u2014 Either the content is no longer relevant, or I have realised it is actually misleadingly wrong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another web site\u2122 from me, Allister Jenks. About &#8220;Digital Gardening&#8221;&#8230; This site began life in early 2021 as yet another blog\u2122 as all of my general, personal web sites have been since 2005. Late in 2021 I first heard about Digital Gardening and the idea intrigued me. You can read about Digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-intermediate-page-no-classification","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["jetpack_sharing_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andnow.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}