{"id":2430,"date":"2014-11-18T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T21:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2014-11-18T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T21:57:44","slug":"avoiding-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/avoiding-facebook","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am again avoiding facebook. I&#8217;ve set www.facebook.com to 127.0.0.1 in \/etc\/hosts on my mac and C:\\Windows\\System32\\Drivers\\etc\\hosts on my PC to help remind me that I&#8217;m avoiding it. This time, it was a post of my mother&#8217;s that drove me over the edge.. I considered just unfriending her, but I decided that it would be far more productive to just unfriend the whole system.<\/p>\n<p>See, the thing is, Facebook doesn&#8217;t make me happy. I think part of it is that people repeatedly post religious and political messages on it, and I have enough friends who are right wing for that to get incredibly depressing &#8211; but part of it is just that it&#8217;s kind of like reading a list of all the people who are having lives while I am working 9.7 hours a day (my average last pay period)<\/p>\n<p>One bit of good news is that $LARGE_TIME_HOGGING_CLIENT has given me a week off in November and another in December. I&#8217;ve given a few days of that to other clients, but I&#8217;m currently hogging the majority of it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so, if you don&#8217;t see me on facebook, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m avoiding it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am again avoiding facebook. I&#8217;ve set www.facebook.com to 127.0.0.1 in \/etc\/hosts on my mac and C:\\Windows\\System32\\Drivers\\etc\\hosts on my PC to help remind me that I&#8217;m avoiding it. This time, it was a post of my mother&#8217;s that drove me over the edge.. I considered just unfriending her, but I decided that it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}