{"id":8295,"date":"2016-05-28T23:34:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T07:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2016-05-29T05:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T13:25:02","slug":"behind-the-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=8295","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yester-day, I made the unhappy discovery that seven entries to this &#39;blog that were intended to be publicly accessible have instead been restricted.  Apparently the restriction was caused by a bug in a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/\">WordPress plugin<\/a> or in <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> itself.  The bug doesn't seem to have bitten since 2010, so I believe that it were resolved by some software up-date.<\/p> <p>I used a little MySQL to set things straight, then went over a back-up copy of the <abbr class=\"noshrink\" title=\"database\">dB<\/abbr> to identify all the affected entries, so that I could list them here.<\/p> <p>Three of the affected entries are simply trivial.  One is about poor performance by my previous site host <span style=\"display: block ; margin-left: 1em ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ;\"><a href=\"?p=54\">&#39;Blog Bog<\/a> &#91;16 March 2008&#93;<\/span> and two are about entries to a contest to create types of jelly beans. <span style=\"display: block ; margin-left: 1em ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ;\"><a href=\"?p=56\"><q>and why it should win<\/q><\/a> &#91;16 March 2008&#93;<br \/><a href=\"?p=57\">Full of Beans<\/a> &#91;19 March 2008&#93;<\/span><\/p> <p>Two of the entries are on <abbr title=\"information technology\">IT<\/abbr> <span style=\"display: block ; margin-left: 1em ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ;\"><a href=\"?p=164\">A Useful Bit o&#39; PHP Code, Set Right<\/a> &#91;16 June 2008&#93;<br \/><a href=\"?p=166\">Installing Firefox 3.0 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x<\/a> &#91;17 June 2008&#93;<\/span> and that second <abbr title=\"information technology\">IT<\/abbr> entry now has very little marginal value except to someone making odd software choices.<\/p> <p>The remaining two entries are also the most recent. <span style=\"display: block ; margin-left: 1em ; margin-top: 0.5em ; margin-bottom: 0.5em ;\"><a href=\"?p=167\">A Big Ol&#39; Entry on Patents and Copyrights<\/a> &#91;20 June 2008&#93;<br \/><a href=\"?p=3299\">Thoughts on Boolean <q>Laws of Thought<\/q><\/a> &#91;13 February 2010&#93;<\/span> I very much regret that the entry on intellectual property has apparently been hidden from most visitors for more almost eight years!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yester-day, I made the unhappy discovery that seven entries to this &#39;blog that were intended to be publicly accessible have instead been restricted. Apparently the restriction was caused by a bug in a WordPress plugin or in WordPress itself. The bug doesn't seem to have bitten since 2010, so I believe that it were resolved [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-meta","category-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}