{"id":1892,"date":"2004-04-25T12:33:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T12:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2004-04-25T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2004-04-25T12:33:26","slug":"the_internet_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/the_internet_is\/","title":{"rendered":"the internet is cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/images\/digicam\/meg-sushi.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"fuji finepix 2800 zoom\" title=\"sushi with my meg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>just when you think the internet is nothing but porn, spam and banal blogging idiots, something happens to remind you of what a wonderous and powerful thing it can be.<br \/>\nabout this time last year, i posted a list of names of <a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/archive\/000128.php\">people<\/a> i&#8217;d lost track of over the years and wished to get re-acquainted with thinking that maybe one day either they or someone they knew would be bored and google their name, find my little corner of the &#8216;net and then say &#8220;howdy&#8221;.<br \/>\nwell, today is that day!  i received a slightly bemused email from one paul gillis (paul #1 to those of you in the know). we traded email back and forth, cautiously feeling each other out, him to see if i was some freakazoid stalker-like thing and me to see if he really was the paul i was looking for.  turns out he is and i&#8217;m not.  it&#8217;s very exciting!<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all brand new and, seeing as he now lives overseas, it&#8217;s not like i&#8217;ll be able to see if he still kisses the same way he did 13 years ago, but it&#8217;s nice to know that he&#8217;s alive, well and even remembers me (and one of my less attractive nicknames from highschool).  you just never know who&#8217;ll you find online.  makes the world just a little bit smaller every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just when you think the internet is nothing but porn, spam and banal blogging idiots, something happens to remind you of what a wonderous and powerful thing it can be. about this time last year, i posted a list of names of people i&#8217;d lost track of over the years and wished to get re-acquainted <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/the_internet_is\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}