{"id":140,"date":"2011-03-11T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-03-11T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:55:57","slug":"irony-alert-the-141-characters-in-the-post-would-actually-almost-fit-on-a-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2011\/03\/11\/irony-alert-the-141-characters-in-the-post-would-actually-almost-fit-on-a-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony Alert: The 141 Characters In The Post Would Actually Almost Fit On A Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jersey Shore&#039;s Vinny Guadagnino on <a href=\"http:\/\/vinnyguadagnino.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/why-i-started-blog.html\">Why I started a blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I started a blog&#8230;because Twitter doesn&#039;t have enough room for me to write shit&#8230;for short shit read my twitter&#8230;for long shit&#8230;read this<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2011\/02\/14\/what-could-aolhuffington-ever-want-more-than-to-have-us-sucking-on-their-media-aggregation-website\/\">I feel you, bro<\/a>! Don&#039;t let Twitter hold you back! Free Seabiscuit!<\/p>\n<p>All of which brings up an interesting issue &#8212; ellipses. As regular readers know, I like to separate the periods in ellipses. I don&#039;t remember where I got period-space-period-space-period, but that&#039;s what I do. Some word processing programs reformat ellipses as a single character. I know I&#039;d save characters if I omitted the spaces, or if I subscribed to the single-character ellipses worldview, but I&#039;d rather be more luxurious in my punctuation. In the meantime, support Vinny in his goal to subvert the Twitter paradigm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jersey Shore&#039;s Vinny Guadagnino on Why I started a blog: I started a blog&#8230;because Twitter doesn&#039;t have enough room for me to write shit&#8230;for short shit read my twitter&#8230;for long shit&#8230;read this I feel you, bro! Don&#039;t let Twitter hold you back! Free Seabiscuit! All of which brings up an interesting issue &#8212; ellipses. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[353,380,381,358],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broken-link","tag-be-your-own-ian-mackaye","tag-jersey-shores-vinny-guadagnino","tag-when-you-google-irony-for-the-500th-time-to-remember-what-it-actually-means","tag-why-you-usedont-use-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}