{"id":475,"date":"2003-12-24T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2003-12-24T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T23:22:16","slug":"catching-up-on-blog-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Catching up on blog-conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zephoria <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&#038;entry_id=1381\">grouches<\/a> about a-list bloggers being catty and self-serving and mean.<br \/>\nTo which I respond in comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s just gossip, world-readable.<br \/>\nSocial networks that sustain conversation also harbor gossip, for good and for bad. For good&#8211; models of behavior and thought to learn from the different lives of others (I hate to link, for fear of embarrassing people). And for bad &#8212; cattiness, schadenfreude, one-upsmanship, and posing.<br \/>\nSeems to me that the ethics of blogging overlap mostly with the ethics of gossip. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zephoria grouches about a-list bloggers being catty and self-serving and mean. To which I respond in comments: It&#8217;s just gossip, world-readable. Social networks that sustain conversation also harbor gossip, for good and for bad. For good&#8211; models of behavior and thought to learn from the different lives of others (I hate to link, for fear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching up on blog-conversation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}