{"id":39,"date":"2007-01-11T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2007-01-11T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T13:17:00","slug":"the-plot-thickens-hubris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-plot-thickens-hubris\/","title":{"rendered":"The plot thickens&#8230;.Hubris?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/portent.org\/\">portent.org<\/a> finally escaped from the Google sandbox with a reasonable PR of 4. That took 5 months.<a href=\"http:\/\/personality-tests.eu\/\"> Personality-tests.eu<\/a> though got hacked and  taken down by the hosting company. After zapping the blog (which is where the emails originated), it&#8217;s back up with just one lost day. It was running an older version of Pivot so hopefully it was a problem in that version and not a &#8220;feature&#8221; of Pivot. <\/p>\n<p>Clearly I had tempted fate by writing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhbolton.com\/articles\/review-pivot-blogging-software.html\">review of Pivot<\/a> a few days ago and for my hubris got a metaphorical slap. That also happened to me in 1995 when I was doing a bit of part time private hire driving in Blackpool for C-Cabs. After doing it for two years, I said to a driver one night &#8220;How lucky I was that no  one had ever been sick in my car.&#8221;. Within a fortnight it happened four times- with four different passengers at different times. Unbelievable but true.  Not an urban legend or apocryphal tale &#8211; it really happened to me.  It does really make you wonder sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, portent.org finally escaped from the Google sandbox with a reasonable PR of 4. That took 5 months. Personality-tests.eu though got hacked and taken down by the hosting company. After zapping the blog (which is where the emails originated), it&#8217;s back up with just one lost day. It was running an older version of Pivot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}