{"id":652,"date":"2012-07-12T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T03:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=652"},"modified":"2012-07-12T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T03:08:44","slug":"its-official-digg-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official &#8211; Digg is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a couple of years ago when Digg did their huge redesign &#8230; long-time users (myself definitely included) where<em> pissed<\/em>. The change made the site from the solid aggregator into a social-media wanna-be. Soon, those who disliked the direction Kevin Rose took changed horses to Reddit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5925586\/digg-sells-itself-for-pathetic-pocketchange-500000\" target=\"_blank\">Today we learned<\/a> their slow death has been finalized with the payment of peanuts vs the $200 million they were offered by Google (and turned down) in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Good Riddance, Digg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a couple of years ago when Digg did their huge redesign &#8230; long-time users (myself definitely included) where pissed. The change made the site from the solid aggregator into a social-media wanna-be. Soon, those who disliked the direction Kevin Rose took changed horses to Reddit. Today we learned their slow death has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[44,7,48],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2toiQ-aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}