{"id":140,"date":"2003-07-14T23:22:01","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T23:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=140"},"modified":"2003-07-14T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T23:22:01","slug":"blogging_for_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see the Bushies are doing their part to <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=3087358\">stimulate the economy<\/a>.  I&#8217;m old enough to remember when Republicans used the word &#8220;deficit&#8221; as an epithet on par with &#8220;liberal.&#8221;  But hell, what do they care.  It&#8217;s us Gen X&#8217;ers who will get to pick up the tab.  Oh well, the whole idea of retirement always sounded kinda boring.<br \/>\nA quick word on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/07\/13\/1614230&#038;mode=nested&#038;tid=120&#038;tid=187\">AOL&#8217;s planned entry into blogging<\/a>.  Great idea.  Despite blogs having been around for about 4 years, most people I talk to still have no clue what a blog is.  This could bring the whole concept mainstream.  It might also help wake up the current blogging community, which tends to be self-referential and narcissistic.<br \/>\nNot that <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> any of those things&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><strong>[Listening to: Humpty Dumpty &#8211; Aimee Mann &#8211; Lost In Space (4:02)]<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the Bushies are doing their part to stimulate the economy. I&#8217;m old enough to remember when Republicans used the word &#8220;deficit&#8221; as an epithet on par with &#8220;liberal.&#8221; But hell, what do they care. It&#8217;s us Gen X&#8217;ers who will get to pick up the tab. Oh well, the whole idea of retirement <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=140' 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-140","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\/p9Iwau-2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}