{"id":1636,"date":"2007-01-13T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2007-01-13T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T00:14:00","slug":"on-being-wowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"On Being Wowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/\">Daily Kos<\/a> for a <i>really<\/i> long time.  I registered for an account to post comments, and I think I may have posted five or six.<\/p>\n<p>Today I posted a diary.  My first.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kradical.livejournal.com\">Keith<\/a>&#8216;s fault, really.  He linked to a YouTube video of Keith Olbermann&#8217;s latest Special Comment.  I watched the video, even copied it out of my Internet cache to watch over and over.  (I have a standalone FLV player &mdash; helpful when one wants to watch YouTube videos at leisure.)<\/p>\n<p>Why, I wondered, couldn&#8217;t the NBC Nightly News offer the Olbermann Special Comments as standalone editorials?  Nightly news <i>used<\/i> to editorialize.  It was Walter Cronkite turning against the Vietnam War that turned America against the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Wondering that, I went to Daily Kos and posted a diary.  As I said, it was my first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2007\/1\/13\/174346\/035\">My first diary<\/a> landed on the Recommended Diaries list.<\/p>\n<p>It may stay there an hour.  It may stay there six hours.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just kinda wowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Daily Kos for a really long time. I registered for an account to post comments, and I think I may have posted five or six. Today I posted a diary. My first. It&#8217;s Keith&#8216;s fault, really. He linked to a YouTube video of Keith Olbermann&#8217;s latest Special Comment. I watched the video,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1636\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Being Wowed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[1120,4108],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-keith-olbermann","tag-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}