{"id":77,"date":"2004-11-30T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T19:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=77"},"modified":"2004-11-30T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T19:51:22","slug":"black-is-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2004\/11\/30\/black-is-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Black is Depressing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently got feedback that my website needs to be more &#8216;happy&#8217;!?!?  Hm&#8230; black and neon green just don&#8217;t jump out as happy and exciting I guess.  I thought I had read somewhere that a background in either black\/white is bold and effective.  Having <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030628010159\/http:\/\/www.michaelpiotter.com\/\">done white<\/a> for a good chunk of time and thinking white looked dirty and boring, one naturally considers the dark side of the color spectrum.  And I think the shade of green I&#8217;ve implemented is a nice constrast as well to the utter blackness.  I&#8217;ve always liked blue, but it doesn&#8217;t have the visibility a neon green does.  <\/p>\n<p>  So what was I advised to do?  Emoticons and awesome psychedelic backgrounds with lots of pictures and colors.  Kinda the opposite of what I got now.  Hm&#8230; and this was from a 13 year old kid.  Is he onto something or just kidding?  I may revamp some un-happy areas of the site as a result.  Damn kids! <\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[Listening to: Happy (Live From Central Park) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsmedia.com\/mg\/search.asp?srch=Sheryl+Crow+&#038;+Keith+Richards\">Sheryl Crow &#038; Keith Richards<\/a> &#8211;   (3:21)]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently got feedback that my website needs to be more &#8216;happy&#8217;!?!? Hm&#8230; black and neon green just don&#8217;t jump out as happy and exciting I guess. I thought I had read somewhere that a background in either black\/white is bold and effective. Having done white for a good chunk of time and thinking white looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mywebsites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}