{"id":128733080,"date":"2012-05-05T06:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/jquery-what-art-thou"},"modified":"2012-05-05T06:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:17:50","slug":"jquery-what-art-thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/jquery-what-art-thou\/","title":{"rendered":"jQuery what art thou?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at just about any web page these days, you see lots of $ symbols. \u00a0This means the web page is using jQuery. \u00a0What is jQuery?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div>Basically jQuery takes a lot of tasks that are hard to do with javascript and html, and makes them easier. \u00a0For example dealing with files and xml documents is really hard normally. \u00a0jQuery reduces the hardness to a few commands. You still have to know what you are doing, but the process and the time it takes to make it happen is reduced.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>\u00a0I was hoping that jQuery would be some sort of Candy Mountain where I could type &quot;make awesome webpage&quot; and a beautiful page would appear. \u00a0Sadly it is not. \u00a0But jQuery is pretty cool. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>This post from StackOverflow has some suggestions about <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/836725\/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-jquery\">how to learn jQuery<\/a>. \u00a0I will be using them in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Conclusion: jQuery is not Candy Mountain, but it is a nice off-road vehicle that can get you there faster.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Candy-mountain\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/candy-mountain.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>#LetsDoThis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at just about any web page these days, you see lots of $ symbols. This means the web page is using jQuery. What is jQuery? Basically jQuery takes a lot of tasks that are hard to do with javascript and html, and makes them easier. For&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128733080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128733080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128733080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128733080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128733080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128733080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}