{"id":3205,"date":"2015-09-02T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2015-09-02T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:58:01","slug":"social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/09\/02\/social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Initially when I was released from prison, I wasn&#8217;t allowed to use social media sites, and then only limited sites with limited purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now that I no longer have that restriction I have to say it&#8217;s been quite a disappointment.\u00a0 I had envisioned social media as a way to stay more in touch with friends and customers (there is considerable overlap for me and my business), and occasionally I do get to use it for that purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But more often I get the impression there must be some unspoken rule against original thought because 99% of what I see is some image with some pseudo-clever caption that has been shared a gazillion times and most of it is not remotely interesting or original.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f1\/Monkey-typing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f1\/Monkey-typing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Initially when I was released from prison, I wasn&#8217;t allowed to use social media sites, and then only limited sites with limited purpose. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now that I no longer have that restriction I have to say it&#8217;s been quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/09\/02\/social-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}