{"id":990,"date":"2009-03-31T23:11:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T23:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365ficlets.wordpress.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2009-03-31T23:11:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T23:11:26","slug":"365-ficlets-day-326-tech-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/techno-mage\/2009\/03\/31\/365-ficlets-day-326-tech-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Ficlets &#8211; Day #326 ~ &#8220;Tech Duty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat do you mean you\u2019re not on Twitter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David was staring at me, slack-jawed and wide-eyed as he finished the above question. His reaction was as if I\u2019ve just told him that I don\u2019t enjoy having a woman blow me, or that even though I\u2019m a meat eater I think that bacon is crap. The thing is that it\u2019s a no-brainer to me; I don\u2019t need to broadcast my every thought every moment that I thought it. Sure I\u2019m working in \u201cWeb\u201d and I blog, and I\u2019m on Facebook, or Farcebook as I like to call it, but why is it beyond belief that I don\u2019t have a Twitter account?<\/p>\n<p>David got himself together and tried again;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean how do you stay in touch with everything, man?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was not the first time I\u2019d heard this, and I already had a stock answer;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you do before Aprl 2007? Were you in a desert of solitude without any sense of human connection? Seriously?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t get it, he went on for about another hour, so guess what? Yeah, I have a Twitter account now. Now the only thing left to do is to work out what the Hell to do with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat do you mean you\u2019re not on Twitter?\u201d David was staring at me, slack-jawed and wide-eyed as he finished the above question. His reaction was as if I\u2019ve just told him that I don\u2019t enjoy having a woman blow me, or that even though I\u2019m a meat eater I think that bacon is crap. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wrUK-fY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}