{"id":19565,"date":"2022-07-20T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=19565"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:04:12","slug":"curl-is-8888-days-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2022\/07\/20\/curl-is-8888-days-old\/","title":{"rendered":"curl is 8888 days old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today on July 20 2022, curl turns exactly 8888 days old. It was born on March 20, 1998 when curl 4.0 was shipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number 8 is considered a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/8#As_a_lucky_number\">lucky number<\/a> in several Asian cultures and I figure we can view this as a prequel to the planned curl version 8 release we intend to ship on curl&#8217;s 25th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1477\" height=\"831\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/curl-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17260\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Of course the precursors to curl existed well over a year <em>before<\/em> curl&#8217;s birthday, but let&#8217;s not get into that right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on July 20 2022, curl turns exactly 8888 days old. It was born on March 20, 1998 when curl 4.0 was shipped. The number 8 is considered a lucky number in several Asian cultures and I figure we can view this as a prequel to the planned curl version 8 release we intend to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2022\/07\/20\/curl-is-8888-days-old\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">curl is 8888 days old<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-19565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curl","tag-curl-and-libcurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19575,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565\/revisions\/19575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}