{"id":1214,"date":"2007-02-07T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2007-02-07T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T15:13:00","slug":"blogger-and-i-are-about-to-throw-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/blogger-and-i-are-about-to-throw-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger and I are about to throw down"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mass Blogger exodus<\/a> of the past month or so has been kind of amusing to watch, and I can’t help but hope that Blogger takes notice (even if I’m sure it’s impossible to track the real bloggers leaving vs. the spambot blogs swelling the ranks). I had more or less decided not to switch platforms, since Blogger is the only free platform that I know of that will let me have my way with the template. <\/p>\n

Yes, I am that shallow, to stay with an unreliable and downright pushy platform for purely cosmetic reasons. <\/p>\n

My goal was to just avoid switching to THE NEW BLOGGER (I tried several times while it was in Beta and was always told that my blog couldn’t be moved; I was excited about the changes to dynamic publishing and labeling and whatnot) since I’d heard so many people having trouble with their feeds and other frustrating stuff. <\/p>\n

But today when I logged in, I got a warning I’d not seen before: SWITCH NOW OR GO TO YOUR DASHBOARD (YOU CAN ONLY DO THIS ONCE!). It made it sound as if I could only bypass the switch process one more time before I’d be required to do so. Not cool, Blogger. I don’t respond well to being pushed around. <\/p>\n

So if I am indeed required to switch to THE NEW BLOGGER, I’ll be hopping platforms as well. I do love WordPress (I’ve got an experimental blog on that platform) and my trial with Squarespace went unused, so I’m not sure how I feel about them, and I’m kinda meh about Typepad. I think what it will come down to is that I’ll have to go with WordPress and just get my own frigging domain so I can do what I want with my template. <\/p>\n

And if that happens, I might have to consult the Exodus Master<\/a> if I get stuck. Okay, when I get stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mass Blogger exodus of the past month or so has been kind of amusing to watch, and I can’t help but hope that Blogger takes notice (even if I’m sure it’s impossible to track the real bloggers leaving vs. the spambot blogs swelling the ranks). I had more or less decided not to switch platforms, since Blogger is the only free platform that I know of that will let me have my way with… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-jA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}