{"id":6929,"date":"2025-04-13T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T19:16:05","slug":"c-blog-12th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=6929","title":{"rendered":"C Blog 12th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/C-blog-12-anniversary-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/C-blog-12-anniversary-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/C-blog-12-anniversary.png 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nTwelve years ago today, this blog had its first post. It&#8217;s been run consistently since, with new Lessons posted every Saturday and a new Exercise posted on the first of each month.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe blog was launched at the same time as my book <em>Beginning Programming with C For Dummies<\/em>. This book was updated in 2020 with the current title, <em>C Programming For Dummies<\/em>. The blog was active for a few months before it went live, just to ensure that plenty of material would be here for first-time visitors and that I could keep a schedule to maintain posts. (Many blogs die after one or two missed posts.)<\/p>\n<p>The stats: This blog has 907 posts. By next year&#8217;s anniversary, it will have over 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>I plan on continuing the blog, not only to support my books and my online training courses at LinkedIn Learning, but to keep my own C programming skills sharp. It amazes me every year, but I still find interesting things to write about in C programming. I&#8217;m always learning.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the subscribers as well. Your contributions not only help the blog be interesting, but they help me and others in furthering our understanding of one of the oldest, still active programming languages on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve years ago today, this blog had its first post. It&#8217;s been run consistently since, with new Lessons posted every Saturday and a new Exercise posted on the first of each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}