{"id":1037,"date":"2009-04-23T02:01:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T10:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2009-04-24T02:19:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T10:19:48","slug":"to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To Tweet or Not To Tweet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was taken aback to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/22\/opinion\/22dowd.html?_r=1&#038;em\">Maureen Dowd<\/a> borrowed the blog post title that had been stewing around my noggin for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to sign up for a Twitter account and am (gasp!) even contemplating doing so&#8230;but I&#8217;m hesitating. Do I really need membership to yet another online &#8220;social&#8221; network of sorts? It&#8217;s difficult enough keeping up with the blog, fbook, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/16993229@N06\/\">flickr<\/a>, yelp, kaboodle, polyvore&#8230;and do people really need to know what I&#8217;m doing at any given moment?<\/p>\n<p>(But am I happily surprised that the Bay Area NBC affiliate sports page has &#8220;published&#8221; my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/sports\/baseball\/giants\/Get-Your-Ballpark-Garlic-Fries-with-a-Side-of-Smug.html\">photo<\/a>! Sweet!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I digress&#8230;If you&#8217;ve seen Wall-E, you can understand my hesitation. Lack of human contact and being tied to a device\/gadget (though my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/features\/\">one<\/a>, does come in handy!). Besides, my husband argues that I won&#8217;t sign up for Twitter as it&#8217;s not mainstream enough.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno, what do you think? Should I tweet? Or should I stay tweet free?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was taken aback to see that Maureen Dowd borrowed the blog post title that had been stewing around my noggin for a while. I have yet to sign up for a Twitter account and am (gasp!) even contemplating doing so&#8230;but I&#8217;m hesitating. Do I really need membership to yet another online &#8220;social&#8221; network of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}