{"id":137,"date":"2008-02-26T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-wests.net\/rick\/2008\/02\/26\/when-virtual-identities-pass-on\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T07:08:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T14:08:26","slug":"when-virtual-identities-pass-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/2008\/02\/26\/when-virtual-identities-pass-on\/","title":{"rendered":"When virtual identities pass on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.com\/comics\/offthemark\/archive\/offthemark-20080226.html\">Off the Mark<\/a> comic was really funny in the perspective of virtual identities and communities&#8211;it poignantly raises the question, &quot;how do we talk about the passing of a friend that we only knew by his online username?&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"387\" style=\"margin: 5px\" width=\"332\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/picture-31.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#008;text-align:right;\"><small><em>Powered by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\">Qumana<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought today&#8217;s Off the Mark comic was really funny in the perspective of virtual identities and communities&#8211;it poignantly raises the question, &quot;how do we talk about the passing of a friend that we only knew by his online username?&quot; Powered by Qumana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-networking","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}