{"id":4258,"date":"2015-03-27T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:08:04","slug":"if-the-internet-did-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2015\/03\/if-the-internet-did-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Internet Did Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Internet did exist, we&#8217;d have to uninvent it: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/333313\/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet\/\">&#8220;It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those poor people in developing countries don&#8217;t know about the Internet, only Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/babycastles.com\/\">Babycastles,<\/a> my main link to poetry &#038; digital media in NYC, keeps a calendar of events only on Facebook, not on a plain Web page.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found it very difficult to find (open, public) poetry events in NYC because many are announced only on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at an LA poetry festival now. Didn&#8217;t know about my friends&#8217; (public) offsite readings; they are Facebook-only.<\/p>\n<p>So, really the joke&#8217;s on me for thinking that the Internet still exists and not being on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the 15 of you who will read this on Twitter. It would have been 3, also deluded that the Internet exists, if I&#8217;d only blogged it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Internet did exist, we&#8217;d have to uninvent it: &#8220;It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook.&#8221; Those poor people in developing countries don&#8217;t know about the Internet, only Facebook. Of course Babycastles, my main link to poetry &#038; digital media in NYC, keeps a calendar of events only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2015\/03\/if-the-internet-did-exist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If the Internet Did Exist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,132,42],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-corporate-social-media","tag-internet","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}