{"id":122,"date":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T12:21:28","slug":"down-with-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/122","title":{"rendered":"down with gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simply unacceptible.  That&#8217;s just about all I have to say about that.  Let me explain.  Gmail has been down all morning.  ALL MORNING.  I use Gmail to access just about all of my email, and so I have had no access to my email all morning.  Now, I realize that it&#8217;s Sunday, and it&#8217;s still early in the morning in California (where Google is based), but still.  Are there not backups in place?  Was this an expected failure period?  Is there somewhere I can go to figure out why I can&#8217;t access my email?  Is there tech support for me to contact?  Could I have been warned?  Can the error messages tell me something?  <i>Anything?<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be really honest.  I love Gmail when it&#8217;s working.  It is by far the best email client\/host combination I have ever used.  My only problem is that it often doesn&#8217;t work.  Most of the time it&#8217;s very temporary, but sometimes (like today) it is not.  I realize that the system is still in Beta (being tested), so I shouldn&#8217;t expect perfection&#8230;but I should be able to check my email <i>always<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>The kicker to this whole shebang: the only reason I want to use Gmail this morning is so that I can send in an application to work at Google&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply unacceptible. That&#8217;s just about all I have to say about that. Let me explain. Gmail has been down all morning. ALL MORNING. I use Gmail to access just about all of my email, and so I have had no access to my email all morning. Now, I realize that it&#8217;s Sunday, and it&#8217;s still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hci-topic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}