{"id":94,"date":"2007-05-03T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/grandmom-was-a-blogger\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T23:46:35","slug":"grandmom-was-a-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/grandmom-was-a-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmom was a Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before she died several years ago, my father’s mother, Grandmom, kept in touch with my parents by sending them cut-out newspaper articles she thought they’d find interesting. I remember my parents rolling their eyes good-naturedly as her cut-outs became more and more prolific.<\/p>\n

Then, lately, I’ve noticed my parents doing the same thing, particularly my dad. He often cuts out articles from newspapers and magazines and saves them for me. I was reading the latest one, an interesting article from IEEE about the structure of consciousness<\/a>, when something occurred to me.*<\/p>\n

He and Grandmom clipping out articles to share is no different than my impulse to tell my friends about the clever website<\/a> I just discovered. It is, essentially, blogging. Just because Grandmom didn’t own a computer doesn’t mean that our generation invented the need to share interesting stories. We’ve just improved the method, allowing for that same newspaper article to be shared with a large group rather than mailed to a single person.<\/p>\n

This new way of looking at it gives me more respect for my dad and his cut-out articles. After all, he tends to choose really interesting articles<\/a>. I bet he would have a good blog.<\/p>\n

* This epiphany is actually related to the theory of strange loops in the linked article, which posits that a “strange loop” (system) can work with the same larger symbols, regardless of the underlying mechanism.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before she died several years ago, my father’s mother, Grandmom, kept in touch with my parents by sending them cut-out newspaper articles she thought they’d find interesting. I remember my parents rolling their eyes good-naturedly as her cut-outs became more and more prolific. Then, lately, I’ve noticed my parents doing the same thing, particularly my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-links","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}