{"id":87,"date":"2006-02-16T17:50:04","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T23:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomon.org\/?p=87"},"modified":"2006-02-16T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T23:50:04","slug":"old-posts-saved-public-rejoices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Old posts saved, public rejoices."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of November I moved to a new webhost. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.site5.com\/\"target=\"blank\">site5<\/a>, since you asked, and we&#8217;re very happy together, thanks)  I was so anxious to get away from Yahoo webhosting and move on with my life that I skipped a pretty important step.  I won&#8217;t go into great detail here about the very tecnical aspects of the problem, but, well&#8230; ok, fine.  I didn&#8217;t back up my db.  If you know what I&#8217;m talking about then you know I&#8217;m an idiot, and if you don&#8217;t, you probably suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was checking my visitor log today, and clicked on a google search that brought someone to my page.  Lo and behold, there was one of my old posts, cached on Google!  (The search that started this all, oddly, was a Google India search on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.in\/search?hl=en&#038;q=%22terry%20gross%20is%20jewish&#038;btnG=Google%20Search&#038;meta=\"target=\"blank\">Terry Gross is Jewish<\/a>&#8220;)  I pulled up the source code, copied the pertinent data into WordPress, changed the date and presto, my post was back.  I started to wonder how many of my old posts I could find on Google, and thus began a quest of hours.  At this point I have resurrected 57 posts from January and April &#8211; July.  I&#8217;m not sure exactly why I couldn&#8217;t find anything from February, March, or August &#8211; September.  I guess I&#8217;d need a better understanding of how Google works, how long they save this information, what their criteria are, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the old links work (even to the pictures), though some of the stuff, like the hit counter on links, is a little wonky.  Also, all of my comments are gone.  I could have saved a few of them, but that would&#8217;ve been a much, much bigger pain in the ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of November I moved to a new webhost. (site5, since you asked, and we&#8217;re very happy together, thanks) I was so anxious to get away from Yahoo webhosting and move on with my life that I skipped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=87\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Tie6-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}