{"id":652,"date":"2008-09-24T02:04:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-09-24T02:04:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:04:17","slug":"where-has-september-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2008\/09\/where-has-september-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Has September Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s what I’d like to know. Sometime in the last couple of days, all of the Brick<\/strong> essays I published in September have disappeared. Poking around my Web site<\/a> indicates that the problem originates not with WordPress but Hosting Matters, which operates my domain overall.<\/p>\n

This posting serves first as a test for whomever might be checking on the support ticket I have submitted. It also is an apology for those who want to read the latest in Brick<\/strong>. I have one just about ready to go, but I don’t want to post then lose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s what I’d like to know. Sometime in the last couple of days, all of the Brick essays I published in September have disappeared. Poking around my Web site indicates that the problem originates not with WordPress but Hosting Matters, which operates my domain overall. This posting serves first as a test for whomever might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-difficulties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":659,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2008\/09\/the-server-ate-september\/","url_meta":{"origin":652,"position":0},"title":"The Server Ate September","author":"Ben S. 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Relatives who live many states away, I learned on a recent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Life Lessons"","block_context":{"text":"Life Lessons","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/category\/life-lessons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2165,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2010\/08\/newspaper-paper-or-plastic\/","url_meta":{"origin":652,"position":5},"title":"Newspaper, Paper or Plastic","author":"Ben S. Pollock","date":"August 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"My first \"President's Column\" for columnists.com. Thank you for electing me president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Didn\u2019t you hear? I have not published a running column since Sept. 16, 2001. Instead I\u2019ve written at www.benpollock.com\/brick for nearly seven years. 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