{"id":222,"date":"2019-04-24T15:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/?p=222"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T08:14:08","slug":"first-alexa-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/first-alexa-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"First Alexa Skill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/user-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" width=\"91\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/user-3.png 512w, https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/user-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/user-3-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 91px) 100vw, 91px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a very simple and silly Alexa skill live &#8211; just because we can.  It gives you silly ideas for inspiration.  Its called &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/skills-store.amazon.co.uk\/deeplink\/dp\/B077XZKRXF?deviceType=app&amp;share&amp;refSuffix=ss_copy\" target=\"_blank\">Thought Leader Craig<\/a>&#8220;, and you can find it in the Alexa Skill store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The back-end service runs as an AWS Lambda function.  If the skill is slow to respond on first use, its probably because the Lambda function needs to cold-start as it hasn&#8217;t been used for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The skill has actually been live since December 2017 (with a number of updates since then).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a very simple and silly Alexa skill live &#8211; just because we can. It gives you silly ideas for inspiration. Its called &#8220;Thought Leader Craig&#8220;, and you can find it in the Alexa Skill store. The back-end service runs as an AWS Lambda function. If the skill is slow to respond on first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-products","tag-alexa","tag-dev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}