{"id":1578,"date":"2005-04-11T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/who_cares\/"},"modified":"2005-04-11T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T15:01:06","slug":"who_cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/who_cares\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkleft.com\/new_archives\/010317.html\">TalkLeft<\/a>, Blaghdaddy makes the case <a href=\"http:\/\/blaghdad.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/blaghdaddy-over-and-out.html\">why political blogging is a waste of time<\/a>.  Basically, it&#8217;s because most Americans don&#8217;t care or even know about many of the things bloggers get worked up about.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to argue with that; most Americans don&#8217;t know what is going on.  But just because people aren&#8217;t paying attention doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean some of the issues aren&#8217;t important; some of them are.  Besides, I like knowing what&#8217;s going on, regardless of whether blogging has an impact or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/04\/who_cares\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Who Cares?\"><p>Via TalkLeft, Blaghdaddy makes the case why political blogging is a waste of time. Basically, it&#8217;s because most Americans don&#8217;t care or even know about many of the things bloggers get worked up about. It&#8217;s hard to argue with that; most Americans don&#8217;t know what is going on. But just because people aren&#8217;t paying attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}