{"id":4492,"date":"2011-05-23T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2011-05-23T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:57:39","slug":"bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"Bang bang bang bang bang bang."},"content":{"rendered":"

I meant to blog this on Friday, but I got distracted by shiny objects.<\/p>\n

Blippy is apparently dead.<\/a><\/p>\n

“What’s Blippy?” you cry. Blippy was the “social website” that allowed you to “share” your credit card purchases with other people in your “social network”.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine being able to see everything your friends buy with a credit card as they do it,\u201d MG wrote. \u201cThis not only tells you what kind of things they\u2019re actually into (rather than someone just saying they like something), but also other information like how cheap they are, as well as where they actually are at a given time.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are things that would interest me less than that, but I am hard pressed to think of many.<\/p>\n

The shocking thing, at least to me, is that Philip Kaplan (aka “Pud”, aka “the guy behind F—edCompany.com”) apparently thought this was a good idea. I suppose even Homer nods from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I meant to blog this on Friday, but I got distracted by shiny objects. Blippy is apparently dead. “What’s Blippy?” you cry. Blippy was the “social website” that allowed you to “share” your credit card purchases with other people in your “social network”. \u201cImagine being able to see everything your friends buy with a credit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}