{"id":223,"date":"2004-09-30T21:15:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2005-01-31T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T19:14:05","slug":"rss-changes-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"RSS Changes II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I emailed Blogger support and they changed the RSS feed URI manually back to <a href=\"http:\/\/mountainsmog.blogspot.com\/rss\/MountainSmog.xml\">http:\/\/mountainsmog.blogspot.com\/rss\/MountainSmog.xml<\/a>. The problem is that my <code>&lt;link&gt;<\/code> element, which uses a <code>&lt;$BlogSiteFeedURL$&gt;<\/code> tag (following their instructions) still points to http:\/\/mountainsmog.blogspot.com\/rss\/mountainsmog.xml, and I strongly suspect, without daring to make the experiment, that if I make any other changes to the feed settings it will go back to writing to that file. I explained this to them, and asked if they could solve the problem by making a symmlink, and they responded<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I would suggest that you change the &lt;$BlogSiteFeedURL$&gt;<br \/>\ntag in your template to the actual link,<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/mountainsmog.blogspot.com\/rss\/MountainSmog.xml since we cannot<br \/>\nassign both of these filenames to your account.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it: the status quo is that both files exist, they aren&#8217;t about to allocate one to another user, and changing one to be a symmlink to the other would actually save them disk space. Things like this make me want to install Moveable Type or WordPress or something so I can be in control of my own settings, and so does the fact that I am typing this whole post a second time after it vanished into limbo when I tried to publish it the first time. Do any of my six readers have any relevant experience or advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I emailed Blogger support and they changed the RSS feed URI manually back to http:\/\/mountainsmog.blogspot.com\/rss\/MountainSmog.xml. The problem is that my &lt;link&gt; element, which uses a &lt;$BlogSiteFeedURL$&gt; tag (following their instructions) still points to http:\/\/mountainsmog.blogspot.com\/rss\/mountainsmog.xml, and I strongly suspect, without daring to make the experiment, that if I make any other changes to the feed settings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}