{"id":222,"date":"2011-02-05T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-02-05T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T10:54:39","slug":"why-is-it-so-hard-to-subscribe-to-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2011\/02\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-subscribe-to-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so hard to subscribe to a blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m reading a blog (hosted by Blogger, now owned by Google) in my browser (Chrome, built by Google) and I decide I want to subscribe to it in Google Reader (also a Google product don&#8217;t you know) and I have to scroll right down to the bottom of the page to find a button that says Subscribe and when I click it, it opens a new tab which shows me the XML of the Atom feed.<\/p>\n<p>What in the hell am I supposed to do with that?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an implicit assumption that non-techies don&#8217;t understand RSS (or Atom or whatever) because it&#8217;s a strange concept or hard to explain, but maybe it hasn&#8217;t taken off in the way it should because even in an environment where each part of the equation is controlled by one company the process seems designed to <em>prevent <\/em>me from subscribing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m reading a blog (hosted by Blogger, now owned by Google) in my browser (Chrome, built by Google) and I decide I want to subscribe to it in Google Reader (also a Google product don&#8217;t you know) and I have to scroll right down to the bottom of the page to find a button [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}