{"id":373,"date":"2002-02-27T19:20:59","date_gmt":"2002-02-28T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/27\/no-more-splash-page\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:53:26","slug":"no-more-splash-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/27\/no-more-splash-page\/","title":{"rendered":"No more splash page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16525,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.webpagesthatsuck.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311014513\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.webpagesthatsuck.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 10:27:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 10:27:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just nuked the splash page for my site, so now this page should be the first thing you see. I&#8217;d been tossing it over in my head for a while, as it really didn&#8217;t serve a purpose other than making it just a little harder to get to the actual content of my site. Then, today I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpagesthatsuck.com\/\" title=\"Web Pages That Suck!\">Web Pages That Suck<\/a>, and it opens with a splash page that goes into detail on why splash pages shouldn&#8217;t be used. So&#8230;mine&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine &#8212; now you can get to the random babble that I put up here <em>that much faster<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just nuked the splash page for my site, so now this page should be the first thing you see. I&#8217;d been tossing it over in my head for a while, as it really didn&#8217;t serve a purpose other than making it just a little harder to get to the actual content of my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}