{"id":1357,"date":"2004-09-21T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2004-09-21T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T18:26:55","slug":"jl-of-celibate-in-the-city-fame-goes-pomo-about-bloggernacle-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/09\/jl-of-celibate-in-the-city-fame-goes-pomo-about-bloggernacle-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"JL (of Celibate in the City fame) goes PoMo about bloggernacle dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just how PoMo is the celibate one?  Here&#8217;s a sample from <a href=\"http:\/\/celibateinthecity.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/welcome-to-desert-of-real.html\">her post on the topic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because of my internet blogging activities I &#8216;meet&#8217; other people online. We have no real life interaction, just email and blogging comments. Then, one reader of my blog-about-dates invites me on a real date with one of his real friends. So I go out and meet in real life this stranger that I first met in cyberspace. (My simulacra world has now spilled into my real world). We have a real nice time. Then I go home to blog about the date, so I can create a simulacrum of this real event. However, I know that the people who experienced that same real event will read the simulacrum of it. This knowledge affects the way I report the event online. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/celibateinthecity.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/welcome-to-desert-of-real.html\">JL&#8217;s observations <\/a>make me happy that I dated and married entirely outside of the blogosphere &#8212; I just don&#8217;t know if headache-inducing PoMo discussion about the nature of real experience is conducive to a healthy dating life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how PoMo is the celibate one? Here&#8217;s a sample from her post on the topic: Because of my internet blogging activities I &#8216;meet&#8217; other people online. We have no real life interaction, just email and blogging comments. Then, one reader of my blog-about-dates invites me on a real date with one of his real friends. So I go out and meet in real life this stranger that I first met in cyberspace. (My simulacra world has now spilled into my real world). We have a real nice time. Then I go home to blog about the date, so I can create a simulacrum of this real event. However, I know that the people who experienced that same real event will read the simulacrum of it. This knowledge affects the way I report the event online. Yikes. JL&#8217;s observations make me happy that I dated and married entirely outside of the blogosphere &#8212; I just don&#8217;t know if headache-inducing PoMo discussion about the nature of real experience is conducive to a healthy dating life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}