{"id":172,"date":"2010-04-08T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-04-09T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:47:26","slug":"margaret-atwood-loves-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Atwood loves Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Margaret Atwood loves Twitter and <a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2010\/apr\/07\/love-twitter-hooked-fairies-garden'>writes elegantly about the process<\/a>. Which is the least you&#8217;d expect &#8211; and I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that this article first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nybooks.com\/post\/482335188\/atwood-in-the-twittersphere\">New York Review of Books blog<\/a>, where you can see a photograph of her &#8216;tweeting aboard the Queen Mary&#8217;. She writes how Twitter users are merciless about typos, but also &#8216;sent me many interesting items pertaining to artificially-grown pig flesh, unusual slugs, and the like. (They deduce my interests.)&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what&#8217;s it all about, this Twitter? Is it signalling, like telegraphs? Is it Zen poetry? Is it jokes scribbled on the washroom wall? Is it John Hearts Mary carved on a tree? Let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s communication, and communication is something human beings like to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MargaretAtwood\">Margaret Atwood on Twitter<\/a> yourself if you wish. And you can follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/literaryconnect\">Literary Connections<\/a> there too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Margaret Atwood loves Twitter and writes elegantly about the process. Which is the least you&#8217;d expect &#8211; and I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that this article first appeared on the New York Review of Books blog, where you can see a photograph of her &#8216;tweeting aboard the Queen Mary&#8217;. She writes how Twitter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Margaret Atwood loves Twitter&#8221;<\/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":[6],"tags":[35,19],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-atwood","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}