{"id":528,"date":"2010-02-09T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:45:19","slug":"the-first-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/the-first-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The First One &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-529 aligncenter\" title=\"New Me\" src=\"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1030052-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1030052-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1030052-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I sat long enough to write this.<\/p>\n<p>I searched long enough to stop looking.<\/p>\n<p>I pondered long enough to start thinking.<\/p>\n<p>This post is the THE FIRST ONE on my very own domain. I finally did it. I bought a name.<\/p>\n<p>It took me 3 years. 3 blogging years to do this. I wondered what took me so long. It was the cost of the domain name. I actually thought that its gonna cost me a bomb buying a name. My ignorant delayed me. When my credit card bill arrived recently, it shouted at me RM33.02. I couldn&#8217;t believe how stupid I felt, RM33.02 !<\/p>\n<p>The giant step began. I have my own. I&#8217;m still searching for the right theme, the particular one that catches my sight. My &#8220;oh, wow&#8221; I want this. The search was agonizing. I must have the right theme so my FIRST ONE would sit perfect in it.<\/p>\n<p>I tested on Iweb. I contemplated, Iweb or WordPress. Choices.<\/p>\n<p>Did it all mattered ? Yes, it did. I created a roadblock for myself. My mind was bursting, dying to be free, trying to grow. The only person stopping it, was me. All these nonsense, I must have the &#8220;right theme&#8221;, the &#8220;the right platform&#8221; to build my blog, did nothing except stopped me from writing the FIRST ONE.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that I have done it imperfectly. This is just me. The bare naked truth. I am without, but I feel complete.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to my blog. Welcome the new me. 2010 is my year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat long enough to write this. I searched long enough to stop looking. I pondered long enough to start thinking. This post is the THE FIRST ONE on my very own domain. I finally did it. I bought a name. It took me 3 years. 3 blogging years to do this. I wondered what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-thoughts","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}