{"id":1494,"date":"2022-12-25T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T01:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T01:50:19","slug":"the-google-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/25\/the-google-last-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Google+ Last Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yTozjn2MZT\">pic.twitter.com\/yTozjn2MZT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; James V West (@jvwest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jvwest\/status\/1606185842887733248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On the Death of Google+ James West &#8211;  <a href=\"https:\/\/doomslakers.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/doomslakers.blogspot.com\/<\/a> did this &#8211; I had a copy for a long time but disappeared.  I thought about it again the other day, then went looking and asked Jez Gordon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feralrpg.com\/\">https:\/\/www.feralrpg.com\/<\/a>, who I thought would remember.  He did not, but thought Ramanan Sivaranjan would  <a href=\"https:\/\/save.vs.totalpartykill.ca\/\">https:\/\/save.vs.totalpartykill.ca\/<\/a> would.  Indeed he did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So thanks to you all, gentlemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those were the days, my friends, to quote a song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, James has a Ko-Fi Tip Jar if this makes you burn with anger. <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/jvwest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/jvwest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So thanks to you all, gentlemen. Those were the days, my friends, to quote a song. Also, James has a Ko-Fi Tip Jar if this makes you burn with anger. https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/jvwest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[368,369,370,372,371],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paET2V-o6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1484,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/24\/blades-of-the-jhereg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1494,"position":0},"title":"Blades of the Jhereg","author":"richard","date":"December 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many moons ago I backed the Blades In the Dark Kickstarter - one of the stretch goals was a supplement based on Steven Brust's Jhereg series. 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