{"id":2431,"date":"2025-04-16T23:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2025-04-18T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:50:10","slug":"prune-prune-prune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"Prune prune prune&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2433 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250416_PruningShears-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250416_PruningShears-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250416_PruningShears-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250416_PruningShears-768x769.gif 768w, https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250416_PruningShears-624x625.gif 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>I&#8217;ve received a few emails (thank you!) from readers who note that I have a whole host of broken links in my sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know, these were all working once upon a time, but 10 years is several lifetimes on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on pruning and updating them &#8211; it will be a work in progress over the next several days. It&#8217;s just a sad state of affairs that so many of these sites are inactive or don&#8217;t even exist anymore. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceelevator.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space Elevator Reference<\/a> is now an empty, parked site for crying out loud!<\/p>\n<p>So, patience please, dear readers &#8211; WIP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received a few emails (thank you!) from readers who note that I have a whole host of broken links in my sidebar. Yes, I know, these were all working once upon a time, but 10 years is several lifetimes on the internet. I&#8217;m working on pruning and updating them &#8211; it will be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}