{"id":2406,"date":"2010-09-04T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T22:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/09\/04\/what-twitter-was-made-for\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T22:15:13","slug":"what-twitter-was-made-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/09\/04\/what-twitter-was-made-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Twitter was made for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEpic is not the word for it, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualstoa.net\/2010\/09\/04\/tweeting-blairs-journey\/\">Chris Brooke&#8217;s Tour de Force retweeting of Tony Blair&#8217;s autobiography<\/a>. Thanks to his sacrifice there&#8217;s no need to read it yourself anymore &#8212; you can get the gist of it from the quotes:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n42. Blair, p. 65: \u201cOn that night of 12 May 1994, I needed that love Cherie gave me, selfishly. I devoured it to give me strength.\u201d Wed Sep 1 12:03:56 2010 via web\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n163.Blair doesn\u2019t say that something is funny, he says (p. 290) that there had been \u201ca proper quotient of amusement\u201d. Wed Sep 1 19:15:17 2010 via web\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n215.Blair broods, p.373, every day, on the victims of his wars, &#038; \u201cuses that reflection to recommit to a sense of purpose in the bigger affair.\u201d Thu Sep 2 09:27:54 2010 via web\n<\/p>\n<p>\n216.Blair, p. 373, \u201ccan only hope to redeem something from the tragedy of death, in the actions of a life, my life, that continues still.\u201d (Wow) Thu Sep 2 09:28:56 2010 via web\n<\/p>\n<p>[..]<\/p>\n<p>\n426.Blair, p. 509: \u201cThe British people, whom I genuinely adored\u2026 like a love affair, had ceased loving and were not going to start again.\u201d Thu Sep 2 20:15:41 2010 via web\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n529.Blair, p.567: the killing of JC de Menezes was a \u201cterrible error\u201d, but he also feels sorry for the officers, \u201cwho were acting in good faith\u201d about 21 hours ago via web\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n554.Blair, p. 578: the heart of New Labour was its \u201cchampioning of aspiration\u201d. \u201cEquity cd not &#038; shd never be at the expense of excellence.\u201d about 21 hours ago via web\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n771.Blair, p. 670: \u201cKeynes was a great man\u201d, but \u201cI bet he would be surprised at how his theory is being applied today.\u201d about 14 hours ago via web\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic is not the word for it, Chris Brooke&#8217;s Tour de Force retweeting of Tony Blair&#8217;s autobiography. Thanks to his sacrifice there&#8217;s no need to read it yourself anymore &#8212; you can get the gist of it from the quotes: 42. Blair, p. 65: \u201cOn that night of 12 May 1994, I needed that love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-politics","tag-tony-blair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}