{"id":3014,"date":"2011-02-03T22:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T05:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2011-02-03T22:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T05:20:37","slug":"um-thats-why-the-internet-was-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/um-thats-why-the-internet-was-invented\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, that&#8217;s why the internet was invented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/camera-photos-012.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slugger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3286\" title=\"slugger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slugger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slugger.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slugger-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You haven&#8217;t fully embraced the concept of the internet,&#8221; said Richard to me one night. I was worrying again about sharing so much about ourselves on the old blog, although I realize that&#8217;s pretty egocentric.<\/p>\n<p>We have conversations like this all the time. It begins with me asking, &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you worried&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>someone will arrest us for leaving the kids?<\/li>\n<li>someone will start to stalk us?<\/li>\n<li>some kid will fall through the gaps between the springs of the trampoline?<\/li>\n<li>we&#8217;ll get sick from all the dog droppings in the yard?<\/li>\n<li>our kid will need counseling because I don&#8217;t want him to play baseball anymore?<\/li>\n<li>our kids will never reach their full stature because they won&#8217;t eat peas?<\/li>\n<li>our kids will never get married?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m becoming the Miss Havisham of baby clothes hoarding&#8230; an old shriveled hag, hanging on to sizes 0-3 mos?<\/li>\n<li>our dog will permanently destroy our relationship with my family?<\/li>\n<li>our kid will get whooping cough because I might have missed an immunization&#8230;?<\/li>\n<li>someone will use our family as a poster family against homeschooling?<\/li>\n<li>people won&#8217;t like us?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Worry is just in your nature,&#8221; the husband replies, although that&#8217;s not an answer to my question(s). Maybe he does worry, but it&#8217;s just not in his nature to vocalize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You haven&#8217;t fully embraced the concept of the internet,&#8221; said Richard to me one night. I was worrying again about sharing so much about ourselves on the old blog, although I realize that&#8217;s pretty egocentric. We have conversations like this all the time. It begins with me asking, &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you worried&#8230;.&#8221; someone will arrest us &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/um-thats-why-the-internet-was-invented\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Um, that&#8217;s why the internet was invented<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}