{"id":676,"date":"2002-09-10T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2002-09-11T08:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/11\/9-11-tributes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:15","slug":"9-11-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/10\/9-11-tributes\/","title":{"rendered":"9-11 tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/09\/graphics\/yahoo911.jpg\" title=\"Yahoo! on 9\/11 2002\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Yahoo! on 9\/11 2002\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/09\/graphics\/yahoo911-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"126\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Several sites across the &#8216;net are altering their front pages as a tribute to the 9-11 attacks. Some aren&#8217;t bad, some seem to be pretty ridiculous (to me, at least).<\/p>\n<p>Of the ones I&#8217;ve seen so far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\" title=\"Yahoo!\">Yahoo<\/a>&#8216;s seems the silliest. Essentially the same old Yahoo! as ever &#8212; just all in greyscale. I kind of prefer the approach that other sites have taken (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excite.com\/\" title=\"Excite\">Excite<\/a>, who set their main page to a simple black background, a rememberance message, and links to enter the content area). This just gives me the feeling that while Yahoo figured they had to do <em>something<\/em>, they sure as heck weren&#8217;t going to hide their content &#8212; why, some poor soul might actually get distracted by thinking about actual issues and miss out on some ads!<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe I&#8217;m just too cynical.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/19905\" title=\"MeFi comments thread\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sites across the &#8216;net are altering their front pages as a tribute to the 9-11 attacks. Some aren&#8217;t bad, some seem to be pretty ridiculous (to me, at least).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[398,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}