{"id":758,"date":"2012-06-09T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=758"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:20:06","slug":"the-undocumented-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/09\/the-undocumented-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undocumented Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in the day, I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/livejournal.com\">Livejournal<\/a> blog where I kept in touch with a few dozen friends and acquaintances. I used it to push out updates that I thought people might find interesting, when they had the time to read. I used to post about once a day. Reading back through those posts gives a decent feel for where I was and what I was doing at the time. The signal to noise ratio was decently high. Compare with the triviality of facebook and the raw static of Twitter. Sure, there were plenty of posts about what I had for lunch \u2013 but I can also piece together a lot of my life during those years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a standalone blog like this one is different. There\u2019s no community \u2013 and if there was a community it would be all about me and my posts. People would be checking on me in particular rather than checking in on what \u201cthe crew\u201d was doing<strong>*<\/strong>. I think that\u2019s why I feel no particular urgency to put anything here at all. The crew is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sort of sad that the world has moved on and I\u2019m no longer living a documented life. I\u2019m in a mood to get all retrospective, and I lack the tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or more loosely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>You may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house?<br>\nYou may ask yourself, where does that highway lead to?<br>\nYou may ask yourself, am I right, am I wrong?<br>\nYou may say to yourself, my god, what have I done?<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*<\/strong>: Yes, I\u2019m aware of RSS feeds. I offer them. The point stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, I had a Livejournal blog where I kept in touch with a few dozen friends and acquaintances. I used it to push out updates that I thought people might find interesting, when they had the time to read. I used to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}