{"id":1072,"date":"2009-06-02T23:45:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T23:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:41","slug":"sidebar-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Sidebar Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen pointed out that I&#8217;ve turned up in one of the NZ blog ranking lists <a href=\"http:\/\/openparachute.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/01\/nz-blog-ranks-%E2%80%93-may-%E2%80%9809\/\">at #51<\/a>. How odd.<br \/>\nThis news prompted me to do an update of the sidebar for the first time in about two years&#8230; lots of changes there, some blogs on hiatus have been pulled down, a bunch of new ones added, a new section for people I know doing business on the net (hmm, there&#8217;s more I can add there too but another day), and&#8230; um&#8230; yeah. It is long overdue. I had planned to add alt text to all the links so on mouseover they&#8217;d pop up a short description of the blog but didn&#8217;t make time for that. I am however pleased that I am finally giving some linky back to some of my regular blogreads.<br \/>\nThat said, very few people seem to use the sidebar, judging by my blog stats &#8211; and now that I run everything through Bloglines and RSS, I don&#8217;t much use it myself. Is the blogroll a thing of the past, a dead feature in todays blog interface? Answers on back of postcard plzkthx.<br \/>\n#51, eh? I understand Teh Publishorz give automatic book deals to everyone in the top 25, so that&#8217;s something to work towards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen pointed out that I&#8217;ve turned up in one of the NZ blog ranking lists at #51. How odd. This news prompted me to do an update of the sidebar for the first time in about two years&#8230; lots of changes there, some blogs on hiatus have been pulled down, a bunch of new ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sidebar Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-hi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}