{"id":14431,"date":"2018-12-13T05:24:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14431"},"modified":"2018-12-15T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T13:56:57","slug":"why-oh-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14431","title":{"rendered":"Why oh why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn WordPress&#8230; the engine that powers this blog.\u00a0 The kiddies who write code for it decided it would be great to foist a major change to how the backend editor (how the blog is written) operates, and &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;drive us old codgers absolutely crazy trying to figure out how to use it.\u00a0 They made MAJOR changes for how to write content for the blog and add images, etc.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t even find the &#8220;more&#8221; setting, which powers the simple &#8220;after the jump&#8221; setting that I use in all of my posts.<\/p>\n<p>ARRRGGGHHHH!!!\u00a0 I HATE WORDPRESS 5.0!\u00a0 HATE IT!<\/p>\n<p>I know, hate is a very powerful word, but it applies with this forced update.\u00a0 ACCCKKKK!<\/p>\n<p>Why oh why can&#8217;t those kiddies who write this stuff (operating system code) leave things that work well alone?\u00a0 Why do their ilk go changing websites all over and make them LESS user-friendly and more difficult to navigate?\u00a0 Why why why???<\/p>\n<p>I understand the need for security patches and upgrades, but not the editor. Oh please, not the editor!<\/p>\n<p>This new system is absolutely AWFUL!<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to waste hours that I do not have trying to figure out how to downgrade to a previous version that worked for me.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, until I figure out how to return my blog&#8217;s editor back to how it used to be, the blog will unfortunately have to go on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short: don&#8217;t play with the minds of us old codgers&#8230; we have our ways of finding you and getting sweet revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn WordPress&#8230; the engine that powers this blog.\u00a0 The kiddies who write code for it decided it would be great to foist a major change to how the backend editor (how the blog is written) operates, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}