{"id":279,"date":"2018-02-13T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exposures.co.nz\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:52:46","slug":"once-upon-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon A Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo.jpg\" alt=\"Exposures Online\" width=\"376\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo.jpg 376w, https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-150x34.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/>A very, very long time ago, when the internet was very young, I started building websites.<\/p>\n<p>That stuff is easy now but back in the mid 90&#8217;s it was all very new.<\/p>\n<p>I still do some websites, mainly for close friends and clients I have been working with for nearly 2 decades.<\/p>\n<p>And I have always had Exposures as a personal website.<\/p>\n<p>Exposures has changed a lot over the years and now it&#8217;s just a simple blog. back in the day it was an important website for horse racing people. It got awards. And stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I used to write a weekly column in the old sports paper The Friday Flash called &#8216;Nothing But Net&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently moved servers and transferred a bunch of websites and in the process had to go through some old backups.<\/p>\n<p>And I found the backup for the old Exposures website.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the stuff on there is very dated. Some isn&#8217;t. Some may even be of historical interest to some people.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to go through it over time and recycle some of the best bits of those years.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very, very long time ago, when the internet was very young, I started building websites. That stuff is easy now but back in the mid 90&#8217;s it was all very new. I still do some websites, mainly for close friends and clients I have been working with for nearly 2 decades. And I have always had Exposures as a personal website. Exposures has changed a lot over the years and now it&#8217;s just a simple blog. back in the day it was an important website for horse racing people. It got awards. And stuff. <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/?p=279\">Once Upon A Time&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7408,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,41,53],"series":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-blog","tag-exposures","tag-photofinish","tag-websites","odd"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/?feed=podcast&podcast_series=exposures-the-blog","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mYN8e537LL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/?p=279\">Once Upon A Time&#8230;<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/exposures.co.nz\/?p=279&#038;embed=true#?secret=mYN8e537LL\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Once Upon A Time&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; Exposures - The Blog\" data-secret=\"mYN8e537LL\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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