{"id":462,"date":"2002-03-18T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2002-03-18T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/18\/boy-meets-girl\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:35:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:35:55","slug":"boy-meets-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/18\/boy-meets-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy meets girl&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why my blog isn&#8217;t more personal: Boy and girl meet at a library, sparks fly. Boy and girl go on date to see a friend of the girl&#8217;s perform. After said performance, boy and girl go back to girl&#8217;s house and have light petting session. Before next date, girl does a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Best. Search engine. Ever.\">Google<\/a> search for boy&#8217;s name, and finds his blog &#8212; commenting on her lack of ability to kiss and his disappointment in not getting more frisky. Girl is upset and talks to her friend from the performance, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/03\/18\/business\/18AUDI.html\" title=\"I'm thinking he probably shouldn't have used real names in the article.\">writes a column about the experience<\/a>. Said column ends up getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/15575\" title=\"It even turned into a fairly interesting discussion.\">posted on MetaFilter<\/a>, and people commenting on the column quickly find <a href=\"http:\/\/begleiter.blogspot.com\/?\/2002_02_24_begleiter_archive.html\" title=\"Yup, this is a real thing.\">the blog in question<\/a>. Boy find out about public disclosure of his comments when he starts getting e-mails and comments on his blog, posts his initial responses &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/begleiter.blogspot.com\/archives\/2002_03_17_begleiter_archive.html#10820239\" title=\"Is there an inherent difference between saying something to a friend and saying something in a web journal?\">Holy crap<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/begleiter.blogspot.com\/archives\/2002_03_17_begleiter_archive.html#10831299\" title=\"Trying to decide whether to bother responding to all those comments or not.\">Double holy crap<\/a>&#8220;, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/begleiter.blogspot.com\/archives\/2002_03_17_begleiter_archive.html#10838019\" title=\"...how much money could I make selling 'I Hate Joel' tee shirts?\">Triple holy crap<\/a>&#8220;. Much discussion ensues. However, from the posts made in Boy&#8217;s blog since this thing exploded, he seems to be handling his new-found infamy rather well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before next date, girl does a Google search for boy&#8217;s name, and finds his blog &#8212; commenting on her lack of ability to kiss and his disappointment in not getting more frisky. Boy finds out about public disclosure of his comments when he starts getting e-mails and comments on his blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}