{"id":3383,"date":"2012-07-06T18:52:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2012-07-06T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T23:53:10","slug":"save-igoogle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"Save iGoogle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve used iGoogle as my homepage for the past several years, so I was irritated to learn that that Google will be discontinuing the service next year<\/a>. I realize this might make me sound crotchety, but why can’t Google leave well enough alone? I like being able to scan my various widgets and newsfeeds in one place. I realize mobile is where it’s at now and that all the kewl kids are using Flipboard<\/a> and what-not, but iGoogle is plenty functional for me. Surely the costs of maintaining the service are little more than pocket lint for Google.<\/p>\n

This is the part where I shake my fist and scream at the proverbial kids to get off my proverbial lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve used iGoogle as my homepage for the past several years, so I was irritated to learn that that Google will be discontinuing the service next year. I realize this might make me sound crotchety, but why can’t Google leave well enough alone? I like being able to scan my various widgets and newsfeeds in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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,"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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Sz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}