{"id":7362,"date":"2007-12-12T23:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T04:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:06:29","slug":"what-the-internet-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7362","title":{"rendered":"What the Internet is …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and what it can do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trish writes to an anonymous visitor to her site,”You’re not alone. I’\u0080\u0099ve been there.” She writes that to the visitor based only on the search term that she saw in her traffic report. She has no idea if the visitor stayed – the visitor had not left a comment. But Trish saw the Search term, and posted THAT to the person out there in the wilderness, who had come to her site … looking for something … hope, connection, information, solidarity, understanding.<\/p>\n

Just sit for a second and contemplate how amazing that is. Yes, it’s amazing, too, that the “anonymous visitor” eventually identifies herself in the comments section – but even before that: to say to someone you have never met<\/em>, and may never meet, “You’re not alone. I’ve been there.”<\/p>\n

THAT is the Internet at its best.<\/p>\n

Actually, screw the Internet. That is humanity<\/em> at its very best.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Trish. For your example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… and what it can do. Trish writes to an anonymous visitor to her site,”You’re not alone. I’\u0080\u0099ve been there.” She writes that to the visitor based only on the search term that she saw in her traffic report. She … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62451,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions\/62451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}