{"id":2336,"date":"2009-06-15T22:02:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2009-06-15T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:02:33","slug":"maturing_techno_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"Maturing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should be proud of yourself, Twitter. You&#8217;re actually good for something besides being an idle diversion for bored middle-class Westerners. Your role as a <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2009\/06\/twitter_--_essential_but_not_p.html\">key communications tool for Iranian protesters<\/a> is getting you all kinds of love from uber-bloggers like <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/livetweeting-the-revolution.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>. And good on you for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2009\/06\/down-time-rescheduled.html\">delaying regularly scheduled maintenance<\/a> to keep those lines of communication open. Maybe you can send Ashton Kutcher to Tehran for some man-on-the-scene tweeting. At the very least, it might give a few hundred thousand of his followers the incentive to learn where Iran is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should be proud of yourself, Twitter. You&#8217;re actually good for something besides being an idle diversion for bored middle-class Westerners. Your role as a key communications tool for Iranian protesters is getting you all kinds of love from uber-bloggers like Andrew Sullivan. And good on you for delaying regularly scheduled maintenance to keep those <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2336' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-2336","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-BG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}