{"id":3460,"date":"2003-09-16T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2003-09-16T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T11:33:45","slug":"when_url_shorte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"When URL Shorteners Go Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been using the URL shortener at metamark.net (it shortens things to http:\/\/xrl.us\/&#8230;) for a few weeks.  One thing I really liked about it was that it had a fairly nice api, which made it very easy to fit into my mud client (tinyfugue).  Sometime on Monday, the service just went poof.  I haven&#8217;t been able to find any news about it either.  Anyone else have any idea what happened with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been using the URL shortener at metamark.net (it shortens things to http:\/\/xrl.us\/&#8230;) for a few weeks. One thing I really liked about it was that it had a fairly nice api, which made it very easy to fit into my mud client (tinyfugue). Sometime on Monday, the service just went poof. I haven&#8217;t been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}