{"id":6743,"date":"2012-10-28T01:41:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T00:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2012-10-28T01:41:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T00:41:06","slug":"blogging-with-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6743-blogging-with-surface.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging with Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally post to this site using Windows Live Writer. Unfortunately this does not run on Microsoft&#8217;s new Surface tablet, since it is a desktop executable and Windows RT only allows Windows Store apps to be installed. So how to blog?\n<\/p>\n<p>This site runs WordPress, and of course you can post using the browser. However I prefer to use an offline editor, and the only choice in this respect that I know of is Microsoft Word. I looked at this years ago and decided it was poor; but needs must.\n<\/p>\n<p>One of the issues with using Word is that while it can connect successfully to the WordPress api for posting, it cannot apparently post images using the WordPress upload API \u2013 though if you know a way of configuring Word for this, please let me know. It does support FTP, so I set up an FTP server for this purpose. I did all this on the surface, though in order to make an SSH connection to the web server to sort out the DNS I resorted to VPN and Remote Desktop so I could use Putty, another Windows utility that does not work on Surface RT.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.itwriting.com\/102812_0044_Bloggingwit1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>If you can see the image above, then it worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally post to this site using Windows Live Writer. Unfortunately this does not run on Microsoft&#8217;s new Surface tablet, since it is a desktop executable and Windows RT only allows Windows Store apps to be installed. So how to blog? This site runs WordPress, and of course you can post using the browser. However &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/6743-blogging-with-surface.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogging with Surface<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-mobile","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}