{"id":1213,"date":"2009-10-23T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2009-10-23T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:00:15","slug":"happy-1st-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/happy-1st-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 1st Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This day, 1 year ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\">www.weddingdates.ie<\/a> went live! \u00a0I can barely believe it has been a year already, but we have grown from strength to strength in the year. \u00a0We started with 30 venues (mostly in the Cork and Kerry area) and now have over 90 venues nationwide on the site. \u00a0Our first hits were from family and friends, and now we are getting 6,500 visitors each month to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/search\">search for their perfect wedding venue<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1218\" style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/10\/1st-birthday-cake1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1218\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1218\" src=\"https:\/\/weddingdates-wp-ie.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/2009\/10\/1st-birthday-cake1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: pinkcakebox.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has been involved in this startup enterprise, all the people who have encouraged and supported me and of course all my happy-helpers at all my PR events! \u00a0You all know who you are!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s our <strong>first birthday <\/strong>and I think I can safely say some bubbles will be popped this evening to celebrate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This day, 1 year ago www.weddingdates.ie went live! \u00a0I can barely believe it has been a year already, but we have grown from strength to strength in the year. \u00a0We started with 30 venues (mostly in the Cork and Kerry area) and now have over 90 venues nationwide on the site. \u00a0Our first hits were from family and friends, and now we are getting 6,500 visitors each month to search for their perfect wedding venue. I&#8217;d like to take this [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[440],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weddingdates-general","tag-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}