{"id":51355,"date":"2015-08-29T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/open_thread_is_the_day_of_the_blog_over\/"},"modified":"2015-08-29T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T19:22:17","slug":"open_thread_is_the_day_of_the_blog_over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51355","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Is the day of the blog over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to commenters Pageantmaster and profpk for this topic:<br \/>&#8220;With twitter, facebook and other social media providing instant albeit short interactions, are weblogs approaching their sell by date?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In response to Pageantmaster\u2019s comment, yes I believe blogs are fading as a useful means of communication, even though I have been following TitusOneNine for years and have filched leads from it to post on my Facebook group, Anglican Evangelicals.  No one reads my blog, An Anglican Witness, anymore, whereas we are approving new members of the Facebook group daily.  I was very pleased when Kendall joined the group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is the day of the weblog over?   Will it go the way of the VHS video recorder?  Do weblogs still perform a useful function?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to commenters Pageantmaster and profpk for this topic:&#8220;With twitter, facebook and other social media providing instant albeit short interactions, are weblogs approaching their sell by date?&#8221; &#8220;In response to Pageantmaster\u2019s comment, yes I believe blogs are fading as a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51355\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51355","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}