{"id":19237,"date":"2013-04-01T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19237"},"modified":"2016-04-01T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T17:03:25","slug":"site-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19237","title":{"rendered":"Site Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear people of the future: This was originally posted on April 1st, 2013. For about 12 hours, the site was decorated with a My Little Pony background. In fact, the site looked more or less like this:<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><a href='images\/site_archive_apr2013.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/site_archive_apr2013_small.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='site_archive_apr2013_small.jpg' title='site_archive_apr2013_small.jpg'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Ha ha. <\/p>\n<p>But a lot of people really liked having some color in the background there, which had previously been some low-contrast abstract grey rectangles. I like it too. Ironic pony-placement aside, it does add something to the site. Of course, maybe I like it just because it&#8217;s new. I get the same thing with my desktop wallpaper. After a few weeks of the same image I get sick of it, and whatever replaces it looks &#8220;better&#8221; simply because it&#8217;s novel, not because it&#8217;s objectively a better image. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve put some color on the background in the form of more thematically-themed dice. You know, as a nod to those tabletop games I&#8217;m always writing about on this site. <\/p>\n<p>Some other modest adjustments have been made to the format. Let me know if I&#8217;ve created any usability problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear people of the future: This was originally posted on April 1st, 2013. For about 12 hours, the site was decorated with a My Little Pony background. In fact, the site looked more or less like this: Ha ha. But a lot of people really liked having some color in the background there, which had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[573],"class_list":["post-19237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-april1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}