{"id":658,"date":"2014-03-04T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2014-03-04T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:29:51","slug":"get-off-my-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/04\/get-off-my-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Get off my lawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So almost 5 years ago, I wrote a blog post about not understanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/twitter\/\">twitter<\/a>. Well, I get it now. I also get why Google killed Google Reader.<\/p>\n<p>Writing a long, informative blog post is a lot of work and something I obviously haven&#8217;t done in a while. There was a golden age where people shared information on platforms with great interoperability and open standards. You could easily aggregate information via RSS\/Atom and it was very easy to export, migrate, and generally own your blog data.<\/p>\n<p>But controlling and managing your own data is also a lot of work mostly because of the ever increasing onslaught of spam. So it&#8217;s easier to give all our data to facebook and google for free while they try to sell us to advertisers. You can&#8217;t consolidate anything from facebook, google, or twitter because of course they&#8217;re competitors and would never share their (ie your) data with each other. You can even&#8217;t retrieve all your tweets and instagram tries to block you from downloading YOUR OWN PICTURES albeit with some cheap and simple filter effects.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m considering shutting down the forum. Yes, I&#8217;m part of the problem. Apparently, I need to get off my own lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So almost 5 years ago, I wrote a blog post about not understanding twitter. Well, I get it now. I also get why Google killed Google Reader. Writing a long, informative blog post is a lot of work and something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/04\/get-off-my-lawn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}