{"id":4,"date":"2009-05-02T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-05-04T01:53:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T23:53:50","slug":"first-rant-far-sooner-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/first-rant-far-sooner-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"First rant. Far sooner than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just set up my wordpress based blog (as you can tell by reading it&#8230;.), and went directly on to setting the  blog&#8217;s title and subtitle. I got them to show up the way I wanted, but not without some frustration along the way.<!--more--><br \/>\nSee, it seems like wordpress sanitizes the input it receives, and deleted all the text I put between the angle brackets in the title. I didn&#8217;t foresee this happening, but was actually pleased when it did. However, in effect, the title was all but deleted. Fine, fair enough. I learned my lesson. So I changed the title from using explicit < and >, to using their HTML equivalents, good ol&#8217; &amp;lt; and &amp;gt;.<br \/>\nSaving that did the job. The title was now displayed with the angle brackets, the way you now see it.<br \/>\nThe problem? The input field, where I just typed up &amp;lt;Angered Brackets \/&amp;gt;, now contained the parsed value of &lt;Angered Brackets \/&gt; &#8211; The value I originally entered, and ended up losing.<br \/>\nSo the next time I go about making a change to the blog settings, I will have to remember to replace those two brackets with their HTML counterparts, or risk losing the title.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Total time running this blog: 5 minutes.<br \/>\nLevel of bracket anger: >>:-\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just set up my wordpress based blog (as you can tell by reading it&#8230;.), and went directly on to setting the blog&#8217;s title and subtitle. I got them to show up the way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeredbrackets.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}