{"id":7762,"date":"2013-07-01T00:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T04:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:04:21","slug":"rip-google-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2013\/07\/01\/rip-google-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Google Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Working @ Home by Ezra S F, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sneezypb\/38051953\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Working @ Home\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/26\/38051953_10c2b69138_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Today is the day Google kills off my favorite product: Google Reader.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone cold turkey for over month and still have withdrawal symptoms. My mistake probably is the continual thinking, &#8220;This would be so much easier in GReader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After reading a dozen articles on possible replacements and trying out them all, I was very disappointed. Even heroic new comers like Digg Reader fail to impress. I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/feedly.com\/\">feedly<\/a> is my replacement. Least worst is not comforting.<\/p>\n<p>Before the announcement, I spent on average about 15 hours a week reading and following up on new posts. Reaching everything read felt like an accomplishment. Now, I maybe spend 5 using feedly and have spiraled out of control in the number unread content. It is time to cull my feeds because it is obvious I am not going to read RSS as much anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe feedly will improve into being more usable. After all, Google Reader did. I was on Bloglines. In fact, here is the post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2005\/02\/08\/7218\/\">RIP Bloglines<\/a> way back in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day Google kills off my favorite product: Google Reader. I&#8217;ve gone cold turkey for over month and still have withdrawal symptoms. My mistake probably is the continual thinking, &#8220;This would be so much easier in GReader.&#8221; After reading a dozen articles on possible replacements and trying out them all, I was very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[189],"tags":[2692,864,2607,331],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-feedly","tag-google-reader","tag-posted-2013","tag-rss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-21c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}