{"id":12,"date":"2003-07-19T23:50:29","date_gmt":"2003-07-20T03:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/?p=12"},"modified":"2003-07-19T23:50:29","modified_gmt":"2003-07-20T03:50:29","slug":"testing-the-waters-of-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/2003\/07\/19\/testing-the-waters-of-public-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"testing the waters of public interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this is a first. always have the audience to my words been somewhat capitive. at least known. but this format lends itself to the anonymous soapbox. who&#8217;ll read this? who&#8217;ll know, if read, if it will be digested? who&#8217;ll care? herein lies The Folly of the Blog: who really cares?<\/p>\n<div id=\"a000006more\">\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p>this is a first. always have the audience to my words been somewhat capitive. at least known. but this format lends itself to the anonymous soapbox. who&#8217;ll read this? who&#8217;ll know, if read, if it will be digested? who&#8217;ll care? herein lies The Folly of the Blog: who really cares?<\/p>\n<p>i suspect that its more important, in some situations, to be heard then to have the meat &amp; potatoes of your words be digested accurately. got to let them go eventually; once spoken, you&#8217;ve little control over how they are digested. thus we seek as desireable an audience as possible. so as to minimise confusion or to ease the palletability of the subject.<\/p>\n<p>but when a petty author has a literary tailwind such as Archibald Jude for inspiration, its little wonder how\/when shit will come to the surface. I mean, i talk to him, and he does listen. he means well. but he&#8217;s got an attention-span that last about as long as a yellow traffic light.<\/p>\n<p>(Originally Posted: 2003_0719)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is a first. always have the audience to my words been somewhat capitive. at least known. but this format lends itself to the anonymous soapbox. who&#8217;ll read this? who&#8217;ll know, if read, if it will be digested? who&#8217;ll care? herein lies The Folly of the Blog: who really cares? this is a first. always &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/2003\/07\/19\/testing-the-waters-of-public-interest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">testing the waters of public interest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.archibaldjude.com\/spew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}