{"id":2222,"date":"2003-08-15T22:49:38","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T06:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2003\/08\/15\/amish-paradise\/"},"modified":"2003-08-15T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T06:49:38","slug":"amish-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2003\/08\/15\/amish-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Amish Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were we ever meant to be alone?<\/p>\n<p>One of my friends at work, we&#8217;ll call her Christy, had her last day yesterday.  Since she&#8217;s a third shifter we third shifters threw her the obligatory going away party.<\/p>\n<p>I already feel really lonely.  On the way home from work I was listening to the BBC World Service on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyso.org\">WYSO<\/a>.  I listened to an intriguing interview of the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcrossing.com\/\">Bookcrossing.com<\/a>, essentially its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheresgeorge.com\">Where&#8217;s George<\/a> for books.  He stated one of the reasons for starting the project was to develop a sense of community.<\/p>\n<p>Have we all gotten so self absorbed and in our own world we need a book tracking site to develop a sense of community?<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for my liberal slant I&#8217;d go live with the Amish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were we ever meant to be alone? One of my friends at work, we&#8217;ll call her Christy, had her last day yesterday. Since she&#8217;s a third shifter we third shifters threw her the obligatory going away party. I already feel really lonely. On the way home from work I was listening to the BBC World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}