{"id":1790,"date":"2023-05-07T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:38:38","slug":"preserving-the-presence-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/05\/07\/preserving-the-presence-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving the presence of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before I started this blog, I posted for more than a decade at <a href=\"https:\/\/laser.fontmonkey.com\/foe\/\">Footnotes on Epicycles<\/a>. The blog software I was using was somebody&#8217;s indie programming project, and they had stopped maintaining it years before I migrated over here. Sometime in the last month\u2014 possibly due to a server update\u2014 the code finally stopped working. So I spent some time over the last couple of days hacking together a solution which makes all the old posts available at most of the same URLs.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1790' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/05\/07\/preserving-the-presence-of-the-past\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1790' title=' In case you&amp;#8217;re curious: A Python script which applied a ton of regular expressions to the blog files, generating static HTML for the posts and comments. Some crude PHP on the site to display that HTML in response to queries.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to poke around over there, I&#8217;ve also added <a href=\"https:\/\/laser.fontmonkey.com\/foe\/archive.php\">an archive page<\/a>.<span id='easy-footnote-2-1790' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/05\/07\/preserving-the-presence-of-the-past\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1790' title=' I realize blogs aren&amp;#8217;t really a thing anymore. I notice with a sigh that it&amp;#8217;s been &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/10\/11\/elegy-for-the-blue-room\/&quot; data-type=&quot;post&quot; data-id=&quot;631&quot;&gt;almost five years&lt;\/a&gt; since John Holbo quipped, \u201cRemember when there were blogs? Ah, those were the good old days.\u201d'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I started this blog, I posted for more than a decade at Footnotes on Epicycles. The blog software I was using was somebody&#8217;s indie programming project, and they had stopped maintaining it years before I migrated over here. Sometime in the last month\u2014 possibly due to a server update\u2014 the code finally stopped working. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/05\/07\/preserving-the-presence-of-the-past\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preserving the presence of the past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,31],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-nfw","tag-nostalgia","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-sS","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}