{"id":11884,"date":"2013-04-08T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2013-04-08T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:14:01","slug":"retro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11884","title":{"rendered":"Retro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the readers of this blog sent me a very nice and friendly email today, pointing out that the site has an extremely retro design, and that perhaps it might make sense to update to something more modern.<\/p>\n<p>I thus find myself on the horns of a dilemma.  On the one hand, I enjoy these sorts of retro things.  For example, the smartest phone I am currently using looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/samsung.png\" width=224><\/center><\/p>\n<p>and the telephone I use at home is this charming replica of a candlestick phone from the 1920s:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/candlestick-phone.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When are old fashioned things charming, and when are they just old?   People tend to like my candlestick phone, presumably because it evokes a lost world of long ago.  Yet my Samsung flip-phone seems to inspire something closer to bemusement.<\/p>\n<p>In our modern cyber world, so relentlessly focused on the latest and greatest, is it valid to employ a retro web page design?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it, in the immortal words of Seth MacFarlane, &#8220;still too soon&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the readers of this blog sent me a very nice and friendly email today, pointing out that the site has an extremely retro design, and that perhaps it might make sense to update to something more modern. I thus find myself on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, I enjoy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=11884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retro&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}