{"id":1240,"date":"2016-05-18T22:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T04:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2016-05-18T22:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T04:04:52","slug":"twittering-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Twittering Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owing largely to a dearth of time, my online activities have been limited mostly to Twitter. Today, a tweet I sent as an offhand comment to the proprietor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/\">Balloon Juice<\/a> appeared in a front page article. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2016\/05\/18\/screw-him-and-his-diehards\/\">This one<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Each alert that someone had &#8220;liked&#8221; that tweet or &#8220;reweeted&#8221; it or responded to it in some other way was like a little reward. <\/p>\n<p>When I think about it, though, I suppose that it resembles the bells and flashing lights so enjoyed by the folks at the slot machines in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>We are so very like trained rats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owing largely to a dearth of time, my online activities have been limited mostly to Twitter. Today, a tweet I sent as an offhand comment to the proprietor at Balloon Juice appeared in a front page article. This one. Each alert that someone had &#8220;liked&#8221; that tweet or &#8220;reweeted&#8221; it or responded to it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}