{"id":130,"date":"2003-07-06T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2003-07-06T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=130"},"modified":"2003-07-06T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2003-07-06T18:46:06","slug":"addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Addict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NYT, it is possible to become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/06\/business\/yourmoney\/06WIRE.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ei=5062&#038;en=027a31a06e611f55&#038;ex=1058068800&#038;partner=GOOGLE\">addicted to the constant flow of information<\/a> coming through the Web, e-mail, cell phones, handhelds, etc.  Attendant with this data crave is a shorter attention span (shocking, I know).  I&#8217;ll admit to compulsively checking my e-mail and having way too many feeds in my aggregator, but I like to think that I wouldn&#8217;t start sweating and getting the shakes if my system went down.<br \/>\nI read a promising review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/books\/sho-sunday-krakauer06.html\">Krakauer&#8217;s new book about the Mormons<\/a>.  And the Mormons are pissed.  I suspect that this book won&#8217;t just upset Mormons.  Judging from the review, fundamentalists off most stripes will be perturbed by Krakauer&#8217;s conclusions regarding religion, zealotry, and violence.  I&#8217;ll have to find time to read this.  I keep telling myself I&#8217;ll read more nonfiction, but I can&#8217;t seem to resist a good story.  Just read my copy of Volume I of Transmetropolitan.  Great stuff.<br \/>\nOn the home stretch of my next short story.  It sucks, but I see these as warm-up exercises for, hopefully, better stuff in the future.<br \/>\nThe Onion should be declared a national treasure.  Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/onion3925\/bush_asks_congress.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><strong>[Listening to: Born Slippy Nuxx &#8211; Underworld &#8211; Everything &#8211; Everything Everything (Retail) (10:55)]<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the NYT, it is possible to become addicted to the constant flow of information coming through the Web, e-mail, cell phones, handhelds, etc. Attendant with this data crave is a shorter attention span (shocking, I know). I&#8217;ll admit to compulsively checking my e-mail and having way too many feeds in my aggregator, but <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=130' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-addict","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}