{"id":421,"date":"2004-07-16T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2004\/07\/16\/why-blogs-are-no-tamagochis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T05:07:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:07:57","slug":"why-blogs-are-no-tamagochis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/16\/why-blogs-are-no-tamagochis\/","title":{"rendered":"Why blogs are no Tamagochis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tamagochis are isolated.<br \/>\nWeblogs are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Tamagochis die.<br \/>\nWeblogs mature.<\/p>\n<p>Tamagochis get boring over time.<br \/>\nWeblogs get more interesting over time.<\/p>\n<p>Tamagochis don&#8217;t make friends.<br \/>\nWeblogs create networks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"tamagochi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hebig.com\/tamagochi.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"195\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[picture taken at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogwalk.mediapedagogy.com\/\">BlogWalk<\/a>, Vienna, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebig.com\/\">Heiko Hebig<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamagochis are isolated. Weblogs are connected. Tamagochis die. Weblogs mature. Tamagochis get boring over time. Weblogs get more interesting over time. Tamagochis don&#8217;t make friends. Weblogs create networks. [picture taken at BlogWalk, Vienna, via Heiko Hebig]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10455,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/10455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}