{"id":1,"date":"2008-08-01T22:10:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2009-08-07T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:33:50","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia ora"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

No, not a blog about an orange soft drink concentrate, but a Delphi inspired blog from New Zealand.\u00a0 Kia ora means literally “Be well\/healthy<\/em>“, often used as both a greeting and a farewell.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any concrete plans for content as yet, but hope to find the time – and inspiration to post something at least once a week, and hopefully more often.<\/p>\n

Kia ora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> No, not a blog about an orange soft drink concentrate, but a Delphi inspired blog from New Zealand.\u00a0 Kia ora means literally “Be well\/healthy“, often used as both a greeting and a farewell. I don’t have any concrete plans for content as yet, but hope to find the time – and inspiration to post something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2362,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2362\/","url_meta":{"origin":1,"position":0},"title":"Break It or Improve It ?","date":"22 Sep 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Seth Godin recently asserted that Don't touch it! You might break it is the opposite of Touch it! 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