I was going to suggest they could probably restore a good chunk of entries via archive.org (even if they just turned it into a historical archive), but they're following the "accept some, deny all" robots.txt model which means that archive.org isn't allowed to crawl the site. If that block has been in place for some time then there's no chance of any recent posts being in the archive.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
User-agent: kinja-imagebot
Disallow:
User-agent: kinjabot
Disallow:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
User-agent: msnbot
Disallow:
Hmm... Google, Google Adsense, MSN/Live, and kinja are the only bots permitted to crawl the site.
Where's Yahoo? Blocked......
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