{"id":106,"date":"2005-07-23T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2005-07-26T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T09:06:09","slug":"gold-plated-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/23\/gold-plated-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Find &#8212; dooce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dooce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dooce<\/a> was in the blog-sphere a while ago when the blog got its owner fired from her job. And again, I didn&#8217;t really pay attention to it because I thought that was a stupid news. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight after completing my take-home exam at 1AM, as I was going through my daily news-reading ritual, an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a> (god, I love BBC; way better than CNN) ignited my interest in my latest blog find.<\/p>\n<p>Heather&#8217;s witty and funny writing has won me over and earned <i>dooce<\/i> a permenant spot on my daily reading list (50 RSS feeds and growing). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dooce.com\/archives\/daily\/01_28_2002.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> (<i>&#8220;Original Sin&#8221;<\/i>) on getting her first iBook was what did me in. Now I am hooked on her fabulous writing style and <del>penmenship<\/del> penwomanship &#8212; refreshing and resonating. Though her blog has evolved into that of a parent writing about her life raising a daughter, the stories are still facinating reads.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But do I really need a high-end iBook complete with OS X? What does OS X stand for anyway? Am I ready to give up my right-click privileges? Why is everything, including the air I breathe, now strangely aqua and beveled? Is the church true and does God live?<\/p>\n<p>I bear my testimony to you today that yes, God does live, and his name is Steve Jobs. I am a convert. Praise Jesus and partake of the fruit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dooce was in the blog-sphere a while ago when the blog got its owner fired from her job. And again, I didn&#8217;t really pay attention to it because I thought that was a stupid news. Tonight after completing my take-home exam at 1AM, as I was going through my daily news-reading ritual, an article on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/23\/gold-plated-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog Find &#8212; dooce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}