{"id":704,"date":"2009-04-27T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2009-04-27T15:19:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:19:33","slug":"smllus-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/smllus-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"smll.us launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-705\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/smll.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-705\" title=\"smll\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/smll-300x200.gif\" alt=\"smll\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/smll-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/smll.gif 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve just launched my own URL shrinking service.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Just for the heck of it.\u00a0 Some have asked, &#8220;what is a URL shrinker?&#8221;\u00a0 Basically, if you have a long URL&#8230; you can just use a URL shrinking service and just give people a very short url.\u00a0 For example, a CNN story on the swine flu, I created the following url&#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/smll.us\/4df\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/smll.us\/4df<\/a>.\u00a0 If you look at the url after you click on the link, it&#8217;s huge.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/smll.us\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/smll.us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just launched my own URL shrinking service.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Just for the heck of it.\u00a0 Some have asked, &#8220;what is a URL shrinker?&#8221;\u00a0 Basically, if you have a long URL&#8230; you can just use a URL shrinking service and just give people a very short url.\u00a0 For example, a CNN story on the swine flu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}