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Last week, a blog hop was announced at Celebrate Hand Quilting<\/span><\/a> so I submitted my blog to be included.\u00a0 I very seldom have visitors so was excited at the prospect.<\/span><\/p>\n I worked hard on my blog for several days… cleaning off the deck so I could take pictures outdoors of many of my quilts and writing articles to match the pictures.\u00a0 I dug out unfinished items and wrote about them too.\u00a0 I wanted my visitors to learn more about me and my quilting journey.\u00a0 I wanted to show them I can ‘walk the walk’.<\/span><\/p>\n Just after midnight before my blog was announced for the hop, I wrote a post to welcome my new visitors.\u00a0 At that time, I checked and everything was working fine.<\/span><\/p>\n As luck would have it, my blog was hacked just after that post.<\/span><\/p>\n If it wasn’t for a notification on Facebook by a friend who visited my blog, I might have never known that my Comments button wasn’t working.\u00a0 Upon closer inspection, I found none of my archived posts or links were visible.\u00a0 I was heartbroken that the bulb burned out on my chance to shine.<\/span><\/p>\n I worked all day to try and fix the problem.\u00a0 No go.\u00a0 Bob, who understands HTML coding and has written several nice websites, invested several hours searching for the problem with me at his side.\u00a0 Still no go.\u00a0 In the evening when Jacob was available, I had him look at my blog, both on the reader\/admin side and the server side and he can see where the problem began but doesn’t know what caused it.\u00a0 He suspects I was hacked.<\/span><\/p>\n Fine.\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 Disgusting.<\/span><\/p>\n I’ve worked several days to make the blog nice, then worked a couple more trying to fix the problem.\u00a0 I GIVE UP!\u00a0\u00a0 Had I been quilting instead, much progress would have been made on my current projects.\u00a0 Had I been sewing garments instead, I’d have a new summer wardrobe.\u00a0 Had I been reading, I’d have finished my current book and started another while feeling well rested.\u00a0 Had I been cleaning…. NAH!\u00a0 Wouldn’t happen.\u00a0 Instead to show for the hard work, I have a serious outbreak of eczema, usually controlled symptoms of Myasthenia Gravis, a headache and have had several sleepless nights.<\/span><\/p>\n This sucks!<\/span><\/p>\n I think I’ll go back to being a quilter.\u00a0 The blogging world isn’t worth the trouble.\u00a0 It will certainly go on without me!<\/span><\/p>\n Shirl<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, a blog hop was announced at Celebrate Hand Quilting so I submitted my blog to be included.\u00a0 I very seldom have visitors so was excited at the prospect. I worked hard on my blog for several days… cleaning off the deck so I could take pictures outdoors of many of my quilts (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}