{"id":3273,"date":"2012-05-25T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/05\/25\/disturbance-in-force\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:34","slug":"disturbance-in-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3273","title":{"rendered":"A Disturbance In The Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15760,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/frankwjames.blogspot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>To paraphrase Darth Vader, &#8220;I detect a disturbance in the gun blogger force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That disturbance in the force is because Frank W. James &#8211; Farmer Frank &#8211; of <a href=\"http:\/\/frankwjames.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corn, Beans,&nbsp;Spent Brass, An Empty Page and A Deadline<\/a> has decided to hang it up&nbsp;after four years. The frustrations he felt with the constraints of Blogger and some of their new &#8220;features&#8221; was too much for him. He made the announcement on Tuesday in his final post.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I&#8217;ve never made a dime off this blog, so by my father&#8217;s estimation it has had zero commercial value and my time was wasted&#8230;&#8230;UNLESS I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>And I did for a long time, for over 4 years in fact, but due to the changes being made in the software that Blogger is now putting forth, I no longer enjoy it. In fact, this damn thing has become work.<\/p>\n<p>Work that has zero value because Dad was right, I&#8217;m not getting paid anything for it, so it has had no value.<\/p>\n<p>The alternatives in my view are worse because in just about all the acceptable (to me in terms of usage rules) cases I will have to spend money to do this nonsense which means by Dad&#8217;s reasoning my &#8216;work&#8217; would have less than &#8216;zero&#8217; value. It would have a negative value solely for &#8216;vanity&#8217; purposes. That&#8217;s pretty lame and it&#8217;s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So, after approximately 480,000 visits and 626,000 page views over just 4 years of duration, this blog experiment has come to an end.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m glad I got to meet Frank at the recent NRA Annual Meeting. I know I will miss his blog. He promises to do guest blogging in the future for movie and book reviews. I plan to take him up on that offer as I am sure will a number of other bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>It is a damn shame that in the effort to make things &#8220;better&#8221;, technology companies often ruin a decent product. I still can do more with MS Word 2003 than their 2007 version, I&#8217;m still not enamored&nbsp;with the Facebook timeline, and, like Frank, I don&#8217;t really care for the &#8220;new&#8221; version of Blogger. As my grandma used to muse, &#8220;Such as life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Darth Vader, &#8220;I detect a disturbance in the gun blogger force.&#8221; That disturbance in the force is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2141,994],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frank-w-james","tag-gun-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8011,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}