{"id":2450,"date":"2009-02-10T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2009-02-10T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T07:51:00","slug":"i-used-to-brag-that-i-was-a-great-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"I used to brag that I was a great stalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now in planning a reunion, my skills at Internet scouring aren&#8217;t up to par.  In finding a list of over 100 names, I have landed in many dead ends.  I am angry at parents who don&#8217;t give kids unique names\u00e2\u20ac\u201das I try to determine for the fourth time is that really the <i>David Chang<\/i> or the <i>Mike Lee<\/i> I am looking for.  Then I get irritated that some people refuse to join social networks and lead a non-internet life.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, although I barely know the majority of these people, I suddenly feel closer to them by reading their Facebook profiles, their Linkedin profiles, their websites, their trails they left online.  Before, they probably thought I was quiet, silent&#8230;and almost non-existent.  That&#8217;s the way I wanted to be.  <\/p>\n<p>Nobody has asked me why I wanted to be part of the planning committee.  Especially since this place never had the greatest memories for me when I worked there.  Beyond thinking fondly as my first real job, I don&#8217;t regret not partaking in the parties, the movie nights, the hanging out at the office.<\/p>\n<p>I guess in some way, I just want to show everyone that I am different now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in planning a reunion, my skills at Internet scouring aren&#8217;t up to par. In finding a list of over 100 names, I have landed in many dead ends. I am angry at parents who don&#8217;t give kids unique names\u00e2\u20ac\u201das &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2450\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}