{"id":1522,"date":"2009-02-27T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2009-02-27T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:52:43","slug":"honest-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/1522\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest To Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/k3v\">twitter account<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t get it.  I&#8217;ve tried using it for a bit but I just don&#8217;t buy into this whole microblogging thing; who cares about the minutiae of your daily life? Now I know what old, cranky, anti-blogging grandmothers feel like.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s stories like this one <a href=\"http:\/\/sesquipedalis.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/finally-use-for-twitter.html\">where a pair of Twitterati meet THE_REAL_SHAQ<\/a> that intrigues me enough to give it more mind share:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today Sean and I were discussing rumored trade situations over IM, and the possibility of Shaq being traded to Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I just got a twitter from The Real Shaq, and he&#8217;s at 5 &#038; Diner right now,&#8221; Sean informed me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go then&#8221; I said, assuming that I&#8217;d finally put this &#8220;Real Shaq&#8221; crap to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes later we were pulling up to the restaurant and looking for the big black truck that he&#8217;s rumored to drive around town. &#8220;Maybe that&#8217;s it&#8221; Sean said, pointing at an older, but nice Van and laughing. As we pulled up I saw the Superman symbol on the grill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if only Toronto had some interesting celebrities on Twitter.  No <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Adam_Giambrone\">Adam Giambrone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/M_Ignatieff\">Michael Ignatieff<\/a> don&#8217;t count.  I wouldn&#8217;t mind running into Nelly Furtado at Just Desserts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a twitter account, but I don&#8217;t get it. I&#8217;ve tried using it for a bit but I just don&#8217;t buy into this whole microblogging thing; who cares about the minutiae of your daily life? Now I know what old, cranky, anti-blogging grandmothers feel like. But it&#8217;s stories like this one where a pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10000],"tags":[113,22,10004],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangefever.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}