{"id":269,"date":"2004-10-22T06:43:07","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2004-10-22T06:43:07","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T13:43:07","slug":"i-agree-and-i-have-an-lj-figure-that-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/22\/i-agree-and-i-have-an-lj-figure-that-out\/","title":{"rendered":"I agree, and I have an LJ. Figure that out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>As I was browsing the world of LJ for the purposes of this research article I came across a journal that I read nonchalantly and somewhat cynically until I came across this entry: \u00d2i love bread. good, fresh, bread.\u00d3 I dropped the telephone no less than four times in my panicked attempt to mash the keypad and call someone, anyone, and tell them about this \u00c9 this \u00c9 I just don\u00d5t know.<\/p>\n<p>After recovering from a six-week coma, I delved into another LiveJournal, the author of which seemed to communicate mainly in bursts of \u00d2OMG\u00d3 and \u00d2LOL.\u00d3 Now, there are two things in life of which I am certain: The sun rises in the east and sets in the west; and people who use online-speak are assholes. And I\u00d5m not even so sure about that sun thing.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, my very scientific sampling of LiveJournal revealed the following: people like to write about what they had for breakfast, how hard their schoolwork is, and how they can\u00d5t get a date and will most likely die alone. Stunning reads, all of them, but for superior insight and poignancy I\u00d5d still have to go with the Yellow Pages.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/article.php?id=16633\">&#8220;\u00d4Elljay\u00d5 off My Blog&#8221; by Matt Loker, The Daily Californian, October 22 2004<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was browsing the world of LJ for the purposes of this research article I came across a journal that I read nonchalantly and somewhat cynically until I came across this entry: \u00d2i love bread. good, fresh, bread.\u00d3 I dropped the telephone no less than four times in my panicked attempt to mash the keypad and call someone, anyone, and tell them about this \u00c9 this \u00c9 I just don\u00d5t know. After recovering from a six-week coma, I delved&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-blogs","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-4l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}