{"id":707,"date":"2004-03-19T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T21:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/19\/okay-i-just-lost-a-long-long-post\/"},"modified":"2004-03-19T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2004-03-19T21:06:55","slug":"okay-i-just-lost-a-long-long-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Okay, I just lost a long, long post."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just lost a long, complex post dealing with legal issues that required quite a lot of research.<\/p>\n

Why? Well, a menu popped up that I wanted to get rid of, so I pressed “escape.” In Movable Type, pressing “escape” erases everything. There’s no way to undo it, that I can find.<\/p>\n

That seems to me to be criminally stupid design. Why the hell would they include a “erase everything with one keystroke, no way to undo it” function?<\/p>\n

I know, I know – I should be saving halfway through complex posts. That’s damn little comfort.<\/p>\n

Grrrr..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just lost a long, complex post dealing with legal issues that required quite a lot of research. Why? Well, a menu popped up that I wanted to get rid of, so I pressed “escape.” In Movable Type, pressing “escape” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}