{"id":1592,"date":"2003-06-29T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2003-06-29T23:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/mid-life-crisis\/"},"modified":"2003-06-29T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2003-06-29T23:26:28","slug":"mid-life-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/29\/mid-life-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-life crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWith a cryptic note, the lights are out at <a title=\"Scripting News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\">Scripting News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn&#8217;t worth it. And the abuse from others, bordering on cruelty, is intolerable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this related to the recent flap on <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/26\/dont_use_userlands_validator.html\">RSS validators<\/a>? Whatever&#8217;s behind it, it&#8217;s weird.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcarthurweb.com\/200306.html#1056912679\">Misanthropyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: OK, it&#8217;s about RSS, which Dave invented and about which he feels very territorial, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intertwingly.net\/wiki\/pie\/Motivation\">Echo<\/a>, a proposed new format for blog syndication whose primary benefit is Dave&#8217;s lack of control over it.<\/p>\n<p>RSS, for all of its shortcomings, has been widely-adopted, so the transition to Echo, if there is one, is going to be very painful.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a cryptic note, the lights are out at Scripting News: The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn&#8217;t worth it. And the abuse from others, bordering on cruelty, is intolerable. Is this related to the recent flap on RSS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/29\/mid-life-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mid-life crisis?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}