{"id":813,"date":"2004-04-27T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-06-04T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:03:48","slug":"813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/813\/","title":{"rendered":"April showers\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April showers&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actually, it was more like an April monsoon as a mighty thunderstorm hit London tonight, blasting our poor balcony plants with a bloom-beheading salvo of hail and heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/rain.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outside, pelted pedestrians ran to cover and did their best to avoid the mini-tsunamis created by traffic speeding through the flooded streets.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, yours truly continued to battle with the thorny problem of finding a new host for the rapidly expanding urban75 website. In the last week or so, I&#8217;ve learnt all about, err, <em> exciting <\/em>things like FreeBSD operating systems, rackspace premiums and &#8211; joy of joy &#8211; the &#8217;95th percentile method of calculation&#8217;. Zzzzz&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happily, after seven long days of indescribably dull tech talk, I think we&#8217;ve managed to secure two excellent candidates who aren&#8217;t asking a virtual arm and a leg for their services. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n<p>On a real bum note, it is with a heavy heart (and a soon-to-be lighter bank balance) that I have to announce the tragic demise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internet-magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the finest UK Internet Magazine, corporate monoliths EMAP have decided that it no longer fits in with their marketing &#8216;portfolio&#8217;.  And that&#8217;s a real shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April showers&#8230; Actually, it was more like an April monsoon as a mighty thunderstorm hit London tonight, blasting our poor balcony plants with a bloom-beheading salvo of hail and heavy &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5918,"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_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-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rain.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-813","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}