{"id":1953,"date":"2011-02-04T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:07","slug":"egypt-my-daughter-and-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, my daughter, and the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter posted <a href=\"http:\/\/opendna.freeshell.org\/bloxtalk\/egypt\/\">this link<\/a> on her facebook the other day, along with a note that says &#8220;who needs the news?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She then promptly followed that up with a couple of facebook posts complaining about the attacks on &#8220;her&#8221; Anderson Cooper, so apparently she does still feel the need for traditional media sources.  And I know for a fact that she is relentlessly checking in with DailyKos, Huffington Post and CNN and MSNBC websites for news about what&#8217;s going on in Egypt.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, I think the fact that she&#8217;s following all these sources &#8211; mostly from her version of the device formerly known as a &#8220;cell phone&#8221; &#8211; is an interesting take on how information is assimilated by your average member of the generation now in their 30&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p>Multiple streams, constantly streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter posted this link on her facebook the other day, along with a note that says &#8220;who needs the news?&#8221; She then promptly followed that up with a couple of facebook posts complaining about the attacks on &#8220;her&#8221; Anderson Cooper, so apparently she does still feel the need for traditional media sources. And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[500,502,503,506,501,505,436,504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}