{"id":282,"date":"2006-06-02T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T10:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/02\/farewell-to-warblogging\/"},"modified":"2006-06-02T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T10:51:38","slug":"farewell-to-warblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/02\/farewell-to-warblogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Warblogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Welch has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/0604\/co.mw.farewell.shtml\">post-mortem for the 2001 blogging boom<\/a>, in which he recalls the days when the whole post-September-11th-attacks thing seemed like it would really shake up American politics, and that weblogs were at the forefront of a grand realignment. That failed pretty spectacularly, didn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good piece, both recalling what things were like then (I didn&#8217;t have a general-purpose blog yet, but I was booklogging, and regularly reading most of the top blogs of the day), and lamenting how far we&#8217;ve fallen. Sadly, I discovered this via <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2006\/06\/01\/be-true-to-your-scene\/\">Ted Barlow&#8217;s farewell post<\/a>. Another one, as they say, bites the dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Welch has a nice post-mortem for the 2001 blogging boom, in which he recalls the days when the whole post-September-11th-attacks thing seemed like it would really shake up American politics, and that weblogs were at the forefront of a grand realignment. That failed pretty spectacularly, didn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s a good piece, both recalling what&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/02\/farewell-to-warblogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farewell to Warblogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}