{"id":14171,"date":"2026-10-24T10:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:14:57","slug":"site-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=14171","title":{"rendered":"Site Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFor some time, WordPress has been nattering at me to update PHP. I&rsquo;ve been avoiding that because I&rsquo;m afraid something will go wrong and the site will go offline but the recent PHP exploits have convinced me that it&rsquo;s time to act. I queried my site provider and they assure me that the process is simple and direct so I&rsquo;m going to do it right after I publish this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat&rsquo;s a bit silly, of course, because if something does goes wrong you probably won&rsquo;t see this post either. I&rsquo;ll wait a bit so that the post can get into RSS so at least I&rsquo;ll be leaving some breadcrumbs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn any event, I hope to be seeing you on the other side but if Irreal disappears for a while that&rsquo;s why. Be assured that I&rsquo;ll be doing everything I can to get things working again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time, WordPress has been nattering at me to update PHP. I&rsquo;ve been avoiding that because I&rsquo;m afraid something will go wrong and the site will go offline but the recent PHP exploits have convinced me that it&rsquo;s time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=14171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14172,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}