{"id":10194,"date":"2019-01-25T00:25:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2019-01-25T00:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T05:54:35","slug":"back-in-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=10194","title":{"rendered":"BACK IN THE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, I had a blog on Blog City, a UK-based service. There was a real blogging community in Washington, DC with meet-ups IRL (in real life). There were a number of competing services back then all of whom eventually were under pressure to monetize. When Blog City started to nickel-and-dime its users, I let the blog lapse. I remember that LJ and Blogger were popular; WordPress was the darling of geeks.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/01\/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/01\/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/01\/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, I had a blog on Blog City, a UK-based service. There was a real blogging community in Washington, DC with meet-ups IRL (in real life). There were a number of competing services back then all of whom eventually were under pressure to monetize. When Blog City started to nickel-and-dime its users, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=10194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BACK IN THE DAY<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10199,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions\/10199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}