{"id":27152,"date":"2017-09-25T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2017-09-25T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:50:07","slug":"are-you-a-facebook-lemming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/09\/are-you-a-facebook-lemming.html","title":{"rendered":"Are You a Facebook Lemming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_27159\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nauseated-Face-e1506347751230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27159\" data-attachment-id=\"27159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/09\/are-you-a-facebook-lemming.html\/nauseated-face\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nauseated-Face-e1506347751230.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,195\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nauseated Face\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Nauseated Face&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nauseated-Face-e1506347751230.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nauseated-Face-e1506347751230.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nauseated-Face-e1506347751230.jpg\" alt title=\"Nauseated Face\" width=\"200\" height=\"195\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nauseated Face<\/p><\/div>I disliked Facebook from the very beginning. Resisted it at first. Refused to open an account. But everybody was using it, so I figured I had to see what it is. To do that required an account. As soon as I opened one, I decided Facebook wasn&#8217;t for me. I tried to close the account but couldn&#8217;t figure out how. So I let it sit unused. That was years ago. Then my staff of thousands told me I should exploit it for blog traffic. I gave in and began posting there. Not often, but often enough to become a Facebook lemming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/facebook-ad-scandal.html?_r=0\">I won&#8217;t be posting on Facebook again.<\/a> Charley Plymell has a great name for the site: Facebutt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I disliked Facebook from the very beginning. Resisted it at first. Refused to open an account. But everybody was using it, so I figured I had to see what it is. To do that required an account. As soon as I opened one, I decided Facebook wasn&#8217;t for me. I tried to close the account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27159,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-media","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nauseated-Face-e1506347751230.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-73W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27179,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/27179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}