{"id":752,"date":"2012-11-14T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=752"},"modified":"2012-11-14T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T09:55:57","slug":"how-to-rename-your-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"How to rename your Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/2012\/11\/how-to-rename-your-raspberry-pi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hosts_edit1.png\" alt=\"How to rename your Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi Spy\" width=\"357\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good, concise article over at Raspberry Pi Spy on how to rename your Pi from the boring default \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/2012\/11\/how-to-rename-your-raspberry-pi\/\">How to rename your Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi Spy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good, concise article over at Raspberry Pi Spy on how to rename your Pi from the boring default \ud83d\ude42 How to rename your Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi Spy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=752\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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