{"id":97,"date":"2023-01-01T16:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2023-01-01T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T16:50:34","slug":"why-are-we-adding-a-blog-to-our-route-66-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/why-are-we-adding-a-blog-to-our-route-66-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we adding a Blog to our Route 66 website?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MAY 6, 2017\u00a0AUSTIN WHITTALL\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A website is a very good way to provide information in an organized manner, on specific topics. Ours (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroute-66com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.theroute-66.com<\/a>) deals with Route 66, its history, attractions, landmarks, and all you need to know about it in order to plan a road trip, family vacations or just drive and enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However as all websites,&nbsp;<strong>it has static content<\/strong>. Although we do update our pages and include new information, in general a web page is &#8220;static&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also a one-way communication, it isn&#8217;t interactive, you can&#8217;t post comments or provide feedback to the website. It lacks interactivity. Yes, you can write us an email (info@theroute-66.com), but it is just a one-on-one conversation which is not shared with the other visitors of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A blog on the other hand has&nbsp;<strong>fresh content<\/strong>&nbsp;that is updated regularly, it can be informative and educational without being as formal as a website. It allows an interchange of ideas, useful content and interactivity. It allows for the &#8220;<strong>human connection&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can approach other subjects that are related to road trips, provide tips, updates with news, events and share information that our visitors send us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope that you enjoy our blog and of course share your thoughts with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin Whittall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reposted in our new host on the first day of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 6, 2017\u00a0AUSTIN WHITTALL\u00a0 A website is a very good way to provide information in an organized manner, on specific topics. Ours (www.theroute-66.com) deals with Route 66, its history, attractions, landmarks, and all you need to know about it in order to plan a road trip, family vacations or just drive and enjoy the ride. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroute-66.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}