{"id":752,"date":"2004-04-20T07:33:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T07:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=752"},"modified":"2004-04-20T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T07:33:11","slug":"usa-today-discovers-iraqi-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/usa-today-discovers-iraqi-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today discovers Iraqi bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2004-04-20-bloggers_x.htm\">Here&#8217;s the scoop. <\/a>  What&#8217;s interesting to me about the Iraqi bloggers is not their actions, but their audience &#8212; judging from the comments at the blogs I&#8217;ve seen, the readers are mostly Americans desperate to be told what they want to hear; a smaller but perhaps noisier group consists of people angry that the bloggers dare to have opinions they disagree with.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s remarkable that the Iraqis put up with these competing pressures from their readers. My strongest urge would be to tell &#8217;em all to mind their own business, but I suppose that&#8217;d defeat the purpose of having a blog.<br \/>\n<P>Link via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogherald.com\/\">Blog Herald.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the scoop. What&#8217;s interesting to me about the Iraqi bloggers is not their actions, but their audience &#8212; judging from the comments at the blogs I&#8217;ve seen, the readers are mostly Americans desperate to be told what they want&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/usa-today-discovers-iraqi-bloggers\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}