{"id":60,"date":"2004-04-30T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T10:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2004-04-30T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T10:50:41","slug":"the-net-redeems-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"The Net Redeems Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I wondered at the failure of the internet to stay on top of the prison story as compared to slow-coach television.<br \/>\nI neglected to mention that the first I saw of the prison story was in Idiot\/Savant&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/norightturn.blogspot.com\/2004_04_25_norightturn_archive.html\">No Right Turn<\/a>.  So the internet won the race (like Vortox, the internet always wins) but Old Media won the, erm, the discus and the javelin and stuff.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nAnd the internet has provided my new favourite thing:<br \/>\npeople who have had control devices implanted in their brains by the New World Order have set up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindcontrolforums.com\/perpsurvey.htm\">online questionnaire to be filled out by the perpetrators<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8220;While we all want the torture you are heaping on us to stop, at the same time, we would like to know something about you as well.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Found via the delightful <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\">Making Light<\/a>, still essential reading for writers of all stripes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I wondered at the failure of the internet to stay on top of the prison story as compared to slow-coach television. I neglected to mention that the first I saw of the prison story was in Idiot\/Savant&#8217;s No Right Turn. So the internet won the race (like Vortox, the internet always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=60\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Net Redeems Itself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}