{"id":2850,"date":"2010-05-20T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2010-05-20T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:30:34","slug":"i-love-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100520-2850.htm","title":{"rendered":"I love links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking.  &#8220;Of course you like links.  What blogger doesn&#8217;t?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not talking about links <i>to my site<\/i> (although I do like those too). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about links to&#8230;<br \/>\nwell, just about anything.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when my dad e-mails me an article he read online that he thinks I might be interested in.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when someone posts a blog or article on my Facebook page because it reminded them of me somehow (or they just want to share a <a href=\"http:\/\/lloydandlauren.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">favorite teacher who blogs<\/a> with the other person they know who blogs&#8211;Thanks, Steve!).<\/p>\n<p>I love perusing a few choice blogs that are primarily just an amalgam of links, such as the political <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a> and Reformed bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/takeyourvitaminz.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vitamin Z<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Challies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy clicking the links that occasionally pop up in my TweetDeck as I&#8217;m going about my daily business (to be read at leisure sometime after I&#8217;m done with my &#8220;daily business&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>And I love sharing links with others.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I have my weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/category\/recap\">recap<\/a> posts&#8211;to share my links with others.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I often tweet links (indeed, it&#8217;s about the only thing I tweet.)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why, if you&#8217;re a good friend, I might just drive you nuts by sending you links to articles, blogs, whatever as I stumble across them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a part of one of those linkie social networks like Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Digg, or Google Reader&#8211;because I&#8217;m not sure if I need another thing to take up more of my time. But I do occasionally wish that I could get more <i>variety<\/i> in my link reading&#8211;except that I want that variety to be, well, proven\/pre-read by friends I trust won&#8217;t send me duds.  So maybe a social network is the way to go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So tell me, what do you think of links?  Do you love them, like them, hate them?  Are you completely ambivalent to them?<\/p>\n<p>Do you like to send them but not receive them?  Do you like to receive them but not send them?  Do you belong to a linkie social network? Which one?  Do you like it?<\/p>\n<p><i>And whether you like sending links or not, if you find something that you think might interest me, PLEASE send me a link.  I absolutely love them!  (Send links via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bekahcubed\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bekahcubed\">Twitter @bekahcubed<\/a>, or <a href=\"mailto:b3master@menterz.com\">e-mail<\/a>.<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking. &#8220;Of course you like links. What blogger doesn&#8217;t?&#8221; But I&#8217;m not talking about links to my site (although I do like those too). I&#8217;m talking about links to&#8230; well, just about anything. I love it when my dad e-mails me an article he read online that he thinks I might &#8230; <a title=\"I love links\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100520-2850.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I love links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}