{"id":6,"date":"2010-02-23T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-03-22T03:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:40:35","slug":"google-is-giving-me-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Google is giving me the boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This blog is written and managed with a tool called Blogger.com, it is owned by Google.&nbsp; They encourage you to blog using their space, servers, domain and their tool to manage it.&nbsp; I have bucked <a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_0Y9ql3eHRaw\/S4RlxOV1tzI\/AAAAAAAAD2c\/1OITUxneG4w\/s1600-h\/boots%5B10%5D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"boots\" border=\"0\" alt=\"boots\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_0Y9ql3eHRaw\/S4Rlxij0LqI\/AAAAAAAAD2g\/ddSEKov-2p8\/boots_thumb%5B8%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"244\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>the trend by using my own (rented) server, space, domain and their tool to manage posts.<\/p>\n<p>Well I got a gmail the other day that said . . . sorry it\u2019s too much trouble to support you guys with your own stuff, come be assimilated . . .&nbsp; or something to that effect. <\/p>\n<p>Now to be fair, Google wasn\u2019t getting any money from me before and they are not asking for any now, so they still don\u2019t fall into the evil camp.<\/p>\n<p>I am working with my hosting provider to try to come up with an alternative.&nbsp; After all Google is trying to cut them out of the loop completely, so that combined with the fact that I am a good paying customer and they have great customer service means they are trying to help me stay put.<\/p>\n<p>We will probably get a new look and feel but I will try an keep all the rich history that is our archive.&nbsp; Don\u2019t be scared, we will get through this together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This blog is written and managed with a tool called Blogger.com, it is owned by Google.&nbsp; They encourage you to blog using their space, servers, domain and their tool to manage it.&nbsp; I have bucked the trend by using my own (rented) server, space, domain and their tool to manage posts.<\/p>\n<p>Well I got [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}