{"id":3166,"date":"2005-02-23T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/23\/now-with-markdown\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:23:27","slug":"now-with-markdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/02\/23\/now-with-markdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Now with Markdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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15:36:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8880,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DHooverphonic%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just added <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\" title=\"Daring Fireball\">John Gruber<\/a>&#8216;s excellent text-processing plugin <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/\" title=\"Daring Fireball: Markdown\">Markdown<\/a> to the site, and enabled it for comments as well as for my own use when writing posts.<\/p>\n<p>In short, this means that any of you that are familiar with Markdown&#8217;s syntax can now use that when entering your comments, and they will appear on the site properly formatted.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you unfamiliar with Markdown can just type normally, using HTML if you want.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you unfamiliar with HTML can just type your little hearts out. :)<\/p>\n<p>A very brief summary of Markdown&#8217;s most common syntax patterns follows behind the cut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Emphasis\/italics: Surround your text with underscores, <code>_like this_<\/code>, to get italics, <em>like this<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Strong emphasis\/bold: Surround your text with double asterisks, <code>**like this**<\/code>, to get bold text, <strong>like this<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Links: Bracket the text you want linked, then follow that immediately with the URL in parenthesis. For example, <code>[Google](http:\/\/www.google.com\/)<\/code> becomes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a>. If you want to, you can add a title attribute (the text that appears when you hover over a link) by including that in quotes after the link: <code>[Google](http:\/\/www.google.com\/ \"Google\")<\/code> becomes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more options, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/basics\" title=\"Daring Fireball: Markdown Basics\">Markdown Basics<\/a> or the full <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/syntax\" title=\"Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax\">Markdown Syntax<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<p>(Geek note: As a nice side effect, since Markdown watches for special characters such as ampersands and automatically properly escapes them, this means that barring any goofs on my part when writing a post, every page on my site should now validate as valid XHTML, even if someone leaves an unescaped ampersand in their comment. Nifty!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Mad About You%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Mad About You' on the iTMS\">Mad About You<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DHooverphonic%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Hooverphonic on the iTMS\">Hooverphonic<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Magnificent Tree, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Magnificent Tree, The on the iTMS\">Magnificent Tree, The<\/a><\/em> (2000, 3:43).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just added John Gruber&#8217;s excellent text-processing plugin Markdown to the site, and enabled it for comments as well as for my own use when writing posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[812,25],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-movabletype","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}