{"id":403,"date":"2007-10-10T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/10\/10\/anything-for-an-angle\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T00:49:03","slug":"anything-for-an-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/10\/10\/anything-for-an-angle\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything for an angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t caught up with the whole conversation yet, but today I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danah Boyd<\/a>&#8216;s posts on Facebook and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/09\/07\/controlling_you.html\" target=\"_blank\">controlling ones public appearance<\/a>. I&#8217;m pretty wary of Facebook for a variety of reasons, but retain a curiosity about the impact it is having and might yet have.<\/p>\n<p>But by coincidence I then turned to today&#8217;s Canberra Times, which, bless its cotton socks, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/covers.ruralpress.com\/frontpages\/2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">front page story<\/a> about the Australian soldier who was killed in Afghanistan, using a photograph and information from his private Facebook profile&#8230;  I&#8217;d be interested to know how they got into his account &#8211; I guess they wooed one of his friends, maybe persuaded them it was respectful to show the public a glimpse of his personal side? I really dislike the way the media handles personal tragedy these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t caught up with the whole conversation yet, but today I&#8217;ve been reading Danah Boyd&#8216;s posts on Facebook and controlling ones public appearance. I&#8217;m pretty wary of Facebook for a variety of reasons, but retain a curiosity about the impact it is having and might yet have. But by coincidence I then turned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-newspapers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-6v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}