{"id":1059,"date":"2005-10-12T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/10\/12\/how-can-someone-so-special-on-the-internet-be-such-a-drag-in-real-life\/"},"modified":"2005-10-12T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T17:15:00","slug":"how-can-someone-so-special-on-the-internet-be-such-a-drag-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/how-can-someone-so-special-on-the-internet-be-such-a-drag-in-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How can someone so special on the Internet be such a drag in real life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&laquo; Inwardly we are so much richer and better, we are capable of so much more; we are princesses abandoned at birth; we are supermen concealing our powers behind mild-mannered anonymity. It might be said that what some people project onto the Internet is not only a heightened, idealized self but in fact a kind of divine self. I do not think anyone ever lives up to such ideals; most people never even reveal them. It is in fact a tribute to the Internet that it allows so many people to reveal so much. &raquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/col\/tenn\/2005\/10\/12\/online_friend\/index.html\">Since you asked<\/a>, by Cary Tennis in Salon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&laquo; Inwardly we are so much richer and better, we are capable of so much more; we are princesses abandoned at birth; we are supermen concealing our powers behind mild-mannered anonymity. It might be said that what some people project onto the Internet is not only a heightened, idealized self but in fact a kind&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/how-can-someone-so-special-on-the-internet-be-such-a-drag-in-real-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How can someone so special on the Internet be such a drag in real life?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}