{"id":175,"date":"2004-04-29T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2004-04-29T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T14:43:00","slug":"175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why are you reading this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/commentary\/columns\/2004\/05\/04_200.html\">The revolution will not be blogged<\/a>, says <em>Mother Jones<\/em> writer Geoge Packer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive ? that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They&#8217;re so easy to consume, and so endlessly available. Their second-by-second proliferation means that far more is written than needs to be said about any one thing. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;ll stop. I&#8217;m off to the low-rent coffeehouse in the Masonic temple building, a small town coffeehouse with no wireless Internet access and hence no one generating &#8220;little spasms of assertion.&#8221; And I will stop at the hardware store, the realm of the tangible.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are you reading this? The revolution will not be blogged, says Mother Jones writer Geoge Packer. &#8220;The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive ? that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They&#8217;re so easy to consume, and so endlessly available. 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