{"id":248,"date":"2006-02-03T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/02\/why-do-fools-fall-in-love.html"},"modified":"2006-02-03T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T17:22:00","slug":"why-do-fools-fall-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/02\/why-do-fools-fall-in-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Why do fools fall in love ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know. Why do people blog ? Hmmm &#8211; it&#8217;s a Friday afternoon, so I really don&#8217;t have time to ponder over vague philosophical questions. But they are similar questions, don&#8217;t you think ? This guy though does have some idea, and he puts it pretty succintly too :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do people blog? You might as well ask why do fools fall in love, or what&#8217;s so funny &#8217;bout peace, love and understanding. Or why did GM kill Oldsmobile (and how did a nameplate that sold over 200,000 cars a year still manage to tank)?<\/p>\n<p>People blog because cave paintings are obsolete, but the need to say &#8220;I was here&#8221; never goes away. And very much like cave painting, Tuvan throat singing and late-braking on a off-camber, decreasing-radius left-hander, some folks are naturally good at it while others get buried in the weeds a time or two before reconsidering their life path. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/insideline\/do\/Columns\/articleId=108704\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Categories : _miscellanous<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-113900182130149738?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know. Why do people blog ? Hmmm &#8211; it&#8217;s a Friday afternoon, so I really don&#8217;t have time to ponder over vague philosophical questions. But they are similar questions, don&#8217;t you think ? This guy though does have some idea, and he puts it pretty succintly too : &#8220;Why do people blog? You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I don&#8217;t know. Why do people blog ? Hmmm &#8211; it&#8217;s a Friday afternoon, so I really don&#8217;t have time to ponder over vague philosophical questions. But they are similar questions, don&#8217;t you think ? This guy though does have some idea, and he puts it pretty succintly too : &#8220;Why do people blog? You&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}