{"id":156,"date":"2007-01-12T17:21:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/156"},"modified":"2014-04-17T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:01:04","slug":"monthly-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/156","title":{"rendered":"Monthly archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are they for? Little more than the ego of the blogger&mdash;Look how long I have been going and how much I have written!<\/p>\n<p>I was looking for a way to reduce the space they used in the side bar until it occurred to me that they have no real function. Who is likely to want to know what I was writing about in July 2006? The only time I have ever used other people&#8217;s is to &#8220;get a feel for the style&#8221; of the blog and that can be better achieved by looking at the categories.<\/p>\n<p>So they are gone! And while I was at it I removed some other cruft as well but also put the full sidebar onto the archive pages so that you can navigate anywhere from there. Much neater I think.<\/p>\n<p>Footnote: I discovered a new word today thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/marblecake.org.uk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/12\/my-new-favourite-word\/\">Mik<\/a>&mdash;Craplets. It is not quite the meaning intended but I think it sums up 90% of WordPress Plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are they for? Little more than the ego of the blogger&mdash;Look how long I have been going and how much I have written! I was looking for a way to reduce the space they used in the side bar until it occurred to me that they have no real function. Who is likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}