{"id":2596,"date":"2009-09-21T04:23:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T09:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2009-09-21T04:23:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T09:23:34","slug":"well-that-was-a-close-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/friends\/well-that-was-a-close-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was a close one"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Borked\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I broke my blog in a major way just now. I think I deleted a bunch of shit, including my WP install or something stupid like that. I was using Filezilla to do install a WordPress plugin that would have backed up my database and upgraded WP, when my pinkie \u2014 the most idiotic of all my fingers \u2014 hit the delete key and suddenly shit started moving and turning green and red and I kept seeing “delete delete delete” in the status window thingy and it took me a beat or twelve to realize what was happening. Well, not what<\/i> was happening, but that SOME BAD SHIT WAS GOING DOWN<\/i>. That’s when I hit the abort button and visited the blog and saw this screen and started crying like a little bitch. Thank God Sig<\/a> knows what the hell is going on in the world. He didn’t even make fun of my dumb ass \u2014 too<\/i> much \u2014 as he got me back up and running. HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF. AND<\/i> he upgraded my WordPress to the current version, which I had been putting off for forevs. (It’s pretty slick.) I owe him a keg of beer. Every day. For the rest of his life. <\/p>\n

You’ll notice that I’ve lost my lovely flocked background and my header. I can live with that for now. Those files are somewhere (my laptop maybe?). The important thing is that I didn’t lose SIX YEARS’ worth of posts. Which reminds me: It’s my six-year blogiversary! Sort of. My archives only go back to November of 2003, but I “blogged” using basic HTML on my previous (now dead) site starting in August or September of that year. I can never remember the exact date. What a wonderful way to celebrate by reminding myself that these pixels could all disappear at any given moment. I guess if those monks can be at peace with the destruction of their art<\/a>, I need to get right with the impermanence of my own. (But mostly I need to learn to keep my files backed up like a moderately intelligent human being.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I broke my blog in a major way just now. I think I deleted a bunch of shit, including my WP install or something stupid like that. I was using Filezilla to do install a WordPress plugin that would have backed up my database and upgraded WP, when my pinkie \u2014 the most idiotic of all my fingers \u2014 hit the delete key and suddenly shit started moving and turning green and red and I… <\/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":[32,101,115,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-its-true--im-crazy","category-the-internet-is-fun","category-the-internet-is-not-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-FS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}