Import format

Existing Plugins to Automate this:

Importing the JSON

Rolling your own.

{
	"meta":{
		"exported_on":1388805572000,
		// epoch time in milliseconds
		"version":"000" // That's not a placeholder. The current version is 000
	},
	"data":{
		"posts":[
			// a list of hashes, each describing 
			// a post. Author id information is bogus in 
			// version 000 because there's 
			// no author data to tie it to.
			// Also, ghost only supports one author
			// per site.
			{
				"id":5,
				"title":"my blog post title",
				"slug":"my-blog-post-title"
				"markdown":"the *markdown* formatted post body",
				"html":"the <i>html</i> formatted post body",
				"image":null
				"featured":0, // boolean indicating featured post status?
				"page":0, // boolean indicating if this is a page or post?
				"status":"published",
				"language":"en_US",
				"meta_title":null,
				"meta_description":null,
				"author_id":1, // doesn't correspond to anything
				"created_at":1283780649000,
							// epoch time in millis
				"created_by":1, // doesn't correspond to anything
				"updated_at":1286958624000,
							// epoch time in millis
				"updated_by":1, // doesn't correspond to anything
				"published_at":1283780649000,
							// epoch time in millis
				"published_by":1 // doesn't correspond to anything
			}
		],
		"tags":[
			// an array of hashes describing each 
			// tag in the system. 
			{
				"id":3, 
				"name":"Colorado Ho!", 
				"slug":"colorado-ho", 
				"description":""
			}
			{
				"id":4,
				"name":"blue",
				"slug":"blue",
				"description":""
			}
		],
		"posts_tags": [
			// an array of hashes associating each 
			// tag with a particular post. 
			// if a tag is on multiple posts
			// it gets multiple entries here
			{"tag_id":3, "post_id":5}
			{"tag_id":3, "post_id":2}
			{"tag_id":4, "post_id":24}
		]
	}
}