{"id":775,"date":"2003-03-23T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2003-03-23T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T15:31:00","slug":"internet-megopolis-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Internet-megopolis City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is huge!!!  I mean <i>HUGE<\/i>.  It&#8217;s a vast populated city complete with shopping, banks, storage facilities, churches, cults, libraries, schools, and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>I have my particular neighborhoods and shopping malls that I enjoy visiting.  And I meet people.  I don&#8217;t know their age or what they look like or even where they live in real life.  We just cross over because of a particular shared interest and start chatting and making bonds.<\/p>\n<p>What started these thoughts?  I joined a <a href=\"http:\/\/ribon.haneoka.net\/\" target=\"_new\">scanlating group<\/a> recently and I was surfing the members&#8217; personal sites today.  I found out that one of the members isn&#8217;t even in high school!  I&#8217;ve been talking to her on the Himechan mailing list for awhile and had no idea.  I knew she was young, but I was thinking high school or college.  She&#8217;s my cousin&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n<p>So then I just started thinking about the internet in general.  It&#8217;s such a bizarre intangible.  But it&#8217;s real.  But it&#8217;s not.  But it is.  But it doesn&#8217;t exist, not like a real city.  But you can do many things in it that you can do in a real city.  And it does exist.  It&#8217;s just not tangible, like buildings and people&#8217;s faces are tangible and understandable.<\/p>\n<p>Internet-megopolis City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is huge!!! I mean HUGE. It&#8217;s a vast populated city complete with shopping, banks, storage facilities, churches, cults, libraries, schools, and on and on. I have my particular neighborhoods and shopping malls that I enjoy visiting. And I meet people. I don&#8217;t know their age or what they look like or even where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}