{"id":21,"date":"2004-07-09T23:39:53","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T06:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=21"},"modified":"2004-07-19T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T03:56:01","slug":"out-of-the-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/out-of-the-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\">orkut<\/a>, the by-invitation-only online community network that seems to get slower and more bogged down every time I log on every few weeks, gave me a surprise today. Out of the blue, I got a message from Eli, an old friend from high school days. Apparently, he tracked me down in orkut and decided to send me an email. I promptly responded, and four replies later, we&#8217;re stil going at it, catching up on the 4 years since we last saw each other. He&#8217;s seen a lot of what life has to offer, but it sounds like he&#8217;s doing pretty well, all things considered. And it surprised me how happy I was to hear from him after all this time. I could care less for a lot of the features on orkut &#8211; communities, for example, are sporadically interesting, but can never keep me for long &#8211; but if orkut provides a few more experienes like this, I may become a believer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>orkut, the by-invitation-only online community network that seems to get slower and more bogged down every time I log on every few weeks, gave me a surprise today. Out of the blue, I got a message from Eli, an old friend from high school days. Apparently, he tracked me down in orkut and decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}