{"id":1259,"date":"2014-01-31T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2014-04-09T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:44:04","slug":"bitly-simplifying-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/bitly-simplifying-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitly: Simplifying URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself needing a link to a certain site online, but the URL is obnoxiously long?\u00a0 You can shorten any URL with bitly.com, making URLs shorter and therefore easier to remember and type correctly.\u00a0 It\u2019s all very simple.\u00a0 Just go over to <a title=\"Bitly Website\" href=\"https:\/\/bitly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">bitly.com<\/a>, and paste that long URL into the bar.\u00a0 Click shorten.\u00a0 Now you have a shortened URL to use wherever and whenever you please!\u00a0 All you have to do is copy and paste the generated link wherever you need it.<\/p>\n<p>You can make an account if you want to keep track of how many times people click on the new link, or if you just want to have a list of saved URLs.<\/p>\n<p>By ITA, <em>Adriana Mulla-Carrillo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself needing a link to a certain site online, but the URL is obnoxiously long?\u00a0 You can shorten any URL with bitly.com, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-tools","category-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}