{"id":3819,"date":"2006-05-23T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/23\/the-perils-of-being-blogged\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:19:01","slug":"the-perils-of-being-blogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/05\/23\/the-perils-of-being-blogged\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of Being Blogged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>I got an amusing little story from <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/23\/drama-and-disappointment\/\" title=\"Eclecticism: Drama and Disappointment\">Xebeth<\/a> yesterday that she&#8217;s granted me permission to pass on&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Must make this quick&#8230;.  Out in the [doctor&#8217;s] waiting room- I am typing away on blog and then zoom to your site to see what&#8217;s new (love those pics!), when guy next to me goes-<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;That&#8217;s the numbnut from Microsoft- right??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  I just kind of stare.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Sorry- probably rude of me- but is that the guy who got in trouble for taking pictures and posting them on his website.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  I have to admit- I was dying at this point. &#8220;Yes. Michael Hanscom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;You actually know him??&#8221;  Guy is now turning my computer towards him.<\/p>\n<p>  DO I EVER?!  I think what I really said was more like, &#8220;Very close friend of mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Guy now takes my hand and starts shaking it.  &#8220;Well pleasure to meet you.  Tell your friend I think he is great.  I read his website everyday.  I think he got hosed.  Cool guy, seems nice.  Hold it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  At this point I am a little scared.  I take back hand. &#8220;Hold what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;You look familiar!!!&#8221;  Oh dear god- please no- not in the hospital&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/a_bit_of_a_pick.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: A bit of a pickle...\">Pickles!!  PAP SMEAR!!<\/a>  I loved that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Yep darlin&#8217;, you&#8217;ve made me famous.  Not as famous as you of course, but famous&#8230;!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently there are occasionally some interesting side effects to knowing me and being mentioned on here! Too funny.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and hello to my mysterious reader! Rude or not, I&#8217;ll certainly not be one to disput the &#8216;numbnut&#8217; label for <em>that<\/em> particular adventure. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must make this quick&#8230;. Out in the [doctor&#8217;s] waiting room- I am typing away on blog and then zoom to your site to see what&#8217;s new, when guy next to me goes- &#8216;That&#8217;s the numbnut from Microsoft- right??&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,894],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-xebeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}