{"id":215,"date":"2012-09-14T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ptca.org\/voice\/new\/?p=215"},"modified":"2012-11-08T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:13:21","slug":"the-stent-blog-has-a-new-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ptca.org\/voice\/2012\/09\/14\/the-stent-blog-has-a-new-look-215","title":{"rendered":"The Stent Blog Has a New Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Burt's Blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ptca.org\/images\/burtsblog_140.gif\" alt=\"Burt at his laptop\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/> Hard to believe it, but I started this blog eight years ago! Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s certainly ripe (more like <em>over-ripe<\/em>) for a bit of a change &#8212; you know, we need to re-invent things at least once a decade&#8230;. So here it is. We&#8217;ve designed a new look but, more importantly, we now will be able to link more easily to a variety of social networking tools, show off our Twitter feed and post appropriate comments from our readers.<\/p>\n<p>And, even more importantly, our posts will have category tags so you&#8217;ll be able to find all my scintillating insights into the various controversies of the day, such as Appropriate Use Criteria or Fractional Flow Reserve or the Transradial Approach.<\/p>\n<p>As with all change, this transition is a work in progress&#8230;or, in this case, <em>regress<\/em>. Which is to say, posts prior to March 2012 are still in the old school format, and can be accessed in <a title=\"Burt's Stent Blog - &quot;Voice in the Ear&quot; - Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ptca.org\/voice\/archives\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\">our archives<\/a>. 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