{"id":345,"date":"2008-02-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-02-14T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T12:00:00","slug":"how-to-add-youtube-videos-to-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/02\/14\/how-to-add-youtube-videos-to-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add YouTube Videos to Your Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy to add YouTube videos to your blog. Click our post title to visit the video that we have embedded to get the code yourself. The video that I have selected is George Bush being interviewed on the threat of Zombies.<\/p>\n<p>Look to the right of the video for a field labeled embed. Copy the code that is in that field. Go to your blog and put your cursor where you would like your movie to go. In Blogger click, Edit HTML in WordPress click the tab called code. 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