{"id":328,"date":"2005-04-10T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T14:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=328"},"modified":"2005-04-10T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2005-04-10T14:08:29","slug":"flash-bloody-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Flash, Bloody Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My web designer buddies love Flash, and I trust them to know what they&#8217;re talking about from a technical perspective.<br \/>\nBut as a website user, I hate the Flash-driven ads that distract from news stories and research articles.<br \/>\nIn fact, it was the recent spate of ugly American Airlines ads that finally motivated me to de-install Flash, once and for all.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nAfter discovering and deleting 4 different instances of Flash controls and changing browser Security settings, I seem to have finally killed the stupid thing.<br \/>\nHaving gone through this process, though, I feel sorry for the average user who may also want to get rid of Flash, because it takes a little know-how to figure it out, including how to un-register Active X controls in Windows.<br \/>\nNo doubt someone will tell me that it&#8217;s easier on a Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My web designer buddies love Flash, and I trust them to know what they&#8217;re talking about from a technical perspective. But as a website user, I hate the Flash-driven ads that distract from news stories and research articles. In fact, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}