{"id":1722,"date":"2011-06-06T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T12:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2011-06-06T08:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T12:27:52","slug":"thru-the-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/thru-the-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"thru the flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a curious thing, this <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/money-meet-mouth\/\">quitting Facebook<\/a>. Not that I was ever a heavy (or unconflicted) fb user, but I definitely miss it for all the reasons I thought I would: it was nice to have the opportunity to keep up with folks I don&#8217;t see often, and now I don&#8217;t get to see pictures of everyone&#8217;s kids. Lots of people are on Twitter, but not everyone. And of course there are those blasted private fb links that sometimes get sent around, the very existence of which presumes that the entire world is on fb (and why wouldn&#8217;t they be?).<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday was my birthday so of course I also missed seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/05\/breathe-in-breathe-out\/\">those HBD messages<\/a> come rolling in throughout the day. I moped about it a bit, though not too much since I was at a <a href=\"http:\/\/openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/2011\/05\/27\/acrl-scholarly-communication-101-road-show\/\">scholarly communications workshop<\/a> all day, which was a fun + nerdy way to spend my birthday. I also had a moment of panic when I realized that there are lots of folks whose birthdays I don&#8217;t know but wish I did, and I&#8217;m annoyed that I outsourced that part of my brain to fb. I remembered to ask a few people when their birthdays are though I need to ask still more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a curious thing, this quitting Facebook. Not that I was ever a heavy (or unconflicted) fb user, but I definitely miss it for all the reasons I thought I would: it was nice to have the opportunity to keep up with folks I don&#8217;t see often, and now I don&#8217;t get to see pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,13,48],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-facebook","tag-internets","tag-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}