{"id":38657,"date":"2013-06-11T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_state_huge_twitter_following_not_laughing_matter_for_columbia_south_car\/"},"modified":"2013-06-11T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T15:15:30","slug":"the_state_huge_twitter_following_not_laughing_matter_for_columbia_south_car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38657","title":{"rendered":"(The State) Huge Twitter following not laughing matter for Columbia, South Carolina, man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Rhodes didn\u2019t court Twitter fame. Maybe he flirted with it a little, but he only did it to make other people smile.<\/p>\n<p>As the following grew for his 140-characters-or-fewer jokes posted under the handle @prodigalsam, Rhodes discovered the dark side of fame. Other Twitter comedians began to attack Rhodes for allegedly stealing jokes. As is typical in internet spats, it quickly turned personal and ugly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe internet has taught me two things: 1. People are the best. 2. People are the worst,\u201d\u009d Rhodes tweeted on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2013\/06\/08\/2809008\/huge-twitter-following-not-always.html#storylink=cpy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2013\/06\/08\/2809008\/huge-twitter-following-not-always.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Rhodes didn\u2019t court Twitter fame. Maybe he flirted with it a little, but he only did it to make other people smile. As the following grew for his 140-characters-or-fewer jokes posted under the handle @prodigalsam, Rhodes discovered the dark<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38657\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,54,433,94,111,194,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-south-carolina","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-education","category-humor-trivia","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}