{"id":4781,"date":"2013-03-15T09:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T13:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2013-03-15T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T13:03:47","slug":"google-reader-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4781","title":{"rendered":"Google Reader, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4782\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/reader-shutdown.png\" width=\"464\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/reader-shutdown.png 464w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/reader-shutdown-300x106.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/>Yesterday, when I logged on to Google Reader, I was presented with a notice indicating that Reader will be shut down July 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad. I was not using Reader much, but it was the one semi-automated means with which I was reasonably comfortable that allowed me to share my blog posts on Google+. Whether or not I can be bothered to continue with Google+ afterwards remains to be seen. Maybe not&#8230; blogs are meant to be a write-only medium anyway (I yell at the world, I do not expect the world to yell back at me), a model which is kind of broken in this era of social networking.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, it appears that a number of people are <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/14\/the-end-of-google-reader-sends-internet-into-an-uproar\/\">quite upset<\/a> at Google&#8217;s decision, and they even started a petition that is rapidly approaching 100,000 signatures. (Yes, I signed it, too.) So who knows, maybe Google will listen and Reader will get a reprieve.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4781' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, when I logged on to Google Reader, I was presented with a notice indicating that Reader will be shut down July 1st. Too bad. I was not using Reader much, but it was the one semi-automated means with which I was reasonably comfortable that allowed me to share my blog posts on Google+. Whether <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4781' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}