{"id":1534,"date":"2007-04-17T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T17:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/17\/one-day-blog-gimmick\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T21:40:40","slug":"one-day-blog-gimmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/17\/one-day-blog-gimmick\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day Blog Gimmick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, apparently, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedayblogsilence.com\/\">The Blogosphere is in deep mourning<\/a>&#8221; and It has consequently decided to stop writing about Its cat for a day, &#8220;in honor towards&#8221; the latest US shooting craze victims. All that with shiny, yet appropriately sober, webtwozero buttons, because the Blogosphere likes nothing like an easy cut-n-paste mirror-effect logo to put in Its sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>While some might be prompt to point at a culturally self-centred inconsequential web fad with vaguely nauseating marketing overtones, <em>I won&#8217;t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact, let&#8217;s take it one step further!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of today, Tuesday, April 17th, the official death count for the ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darfur_conflict\">Darfur genocide<\/a> clocks in at a little over 400,000.<\/p>\n<p>By my own calculation, and using the ongoing rate for online death commemoration, this gives us a mere 33.2 years, which we will round up to 30, for simplicity&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>And it is therefore with great pleasure that I hereby introduce the <strong>30yearBlogSilence<\/strong> initiative. Forgive me if I haven&#8217;t got the shiny web buttons ready, but feel free to set up a website for it.<\/p>\n<p>As for the starting date, I think <em>right fucking now<\/em> is probably a good time: go ahead, I&#8217;ll be right behind you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, apparently, &#8220;The Blogosphere is in deep mourning&#8221; and It has consequently decided to stop writing about Its cat for a day, &#8220;in honor towards&#8221; the latest US shooting craze victims. All that with shiny, yet appropriately sober, webtwozero buttons, because the Blogosphere likes nothing like an easy cut-n-paste mirror-effect logo to put in Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-fucked-up-world","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}