{"id":575,"date":"2003-05-22T21:36:40","date_gmt":"2003-05-22T21:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/05\/22\/people_are_real.html"},"modified":"2003-05-22T21:36:40","modified_gmt":"2003-05-22T21:36:40","slug":"people_are_real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/05\/22\/people_are_real.html","title":{"rendered":"people are real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know that i have a small <a href=\"http:\/\/www.half.com\/\">half.com<\/a> problem (think Biblioholics Anonymous).  In particular, i love having my books signed.  This allows me to confirm that the person who wrote those magnificant words really does exist and is not simply a figment of my imagination.  People are real and i love to make the connection between the real person and the literary\/digital author.<\/p>\n<p>Today, i got to meet one of the people in my blogosphere &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.it.rit.edu\/~ell\/mamamusings\/\">Liz Lawley<\/a>.  It was wonderful fun to be able to map an auditory voice to the written one she presents online.  As she is a gender conscious presence within the social software community, it feels great to have actually put a face to a digital identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know that i have a small half.com problem (think Biblioholics Anonymous). In particular, i love having my books signed. This allows me to confirm that the person who wrote those magnificant words really does exist and is not simply a figment of my imagination. People are real and i love to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}