{"id":3934,"date":"2013-09-29T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:11","slug":"have-we-become-a-society-of-grandmotherly-news-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/have-we-become-a-society-of-grandmotherly-news-clippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Have we become a society of grandmotherly news clippers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-clipping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-clipping-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"news clipping\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-clipping-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-clipping-159x225.jpg 159w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-clipping.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>My grandmother and aunt used to read several newspapers each day and clip out articles they wished to share with friends and other family members. I would occasionally open up an envelope delivered by the postal service and find an article inside with a very brief note written on or paper-clipped to it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t this a fascinating development? Love, Aunt June&#8221; or &#8220;Thought this would interest you. Love, Nana&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I realized that the internet and social media have turned us into a society of article-clipping grannies and aunts. The cost and ease of tech enables article sharing on a scale and volume that neither Nana or Aunt June dreamed possible. I do this myself, many times every day. Wouldn&#8217;t they have loved Facebook and Twitter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother and aunt used to read several newspapers each day and clip out articles they wished to share with friends and other family members. I would occasionally open up an envelope delivered by the postal service and find an article inside with a very brief note written on or paper-clipped to it &#8230; &#8220;Isn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/have-we-become-a-society-of-grandmotherly-news-clippers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Have we become a society of grandmotherly news clippers?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1,4,32,424,1028],"tags":[1269,1268,539],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-save-the-net-2","category-team-wei","category-women","tag-evolution","tag-sharing","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}