{"id":9021,"date":"2026-09-10T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.example.com\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:30:00","slug":"the-small-web-is-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/the-small-web-is-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small Web Is Still Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every few months someone declares that the open web is dead, flattened by a handful of platforms. Then you follow one good link and find yourself on a personal site that has been quietly publishing essays about bird song, or bookbinding, or the history of a single street, for fifteen years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small web never went away. It just stopped being the default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to find it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Look for blogrolls: the old habit of linking to the sites you read. One good blogroll is a whole afternoon.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Subscribe with a feed reader. Most personal sites still publish an RSS feed, and a reader gives you a calm list of new posts with no algorithm deciding what you see.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Follow the footnotes. Writers who link generously tend to link to other writers who do the same.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Reply by email. Personal sites rarely have comment sections, but nearly all of them have an address, and the replies are often the best part.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A personal website is a house you own on a street nobody can bulldoze.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why it matters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Platforms are good at reach and bad at memory. A personal site keeps its archive in order, its links working and its writer&#039;s voice intact. This journal is a small part of that tradition, and if you found it through a link on someone else&#039;s site, the system is working exactly as intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal sites, blogrolls and newsletters never went away. A short guide to finding the corners of the internet built by people, not platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,19,22],"class_list":["post-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","tag-internet","tag-slow-tech","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}