{"id":5000,"date":"2011-05-11T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2011-05-11T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:54:52","slug":"its-such-a-different-world-from-the-one-i-grew-up-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/5000","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Such A Different World From The One I Grew Up In&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;yes&#8230;I Twitter.  I&#8217;m coming to find that the running Tweet list is a really great way to stay informed and pick up on interesting conversations.  Of course, it all depends on who you&#8217;re following.  Follow a bunch of vacant celebrities and you get nothing but vacant celebrity babble.  But follow people like Atrios, Ezra Klien, Rachel Maddow, Krugman and such and you get a really absorbing mix of real time chatter.  And there are celebrities who are worth following: George Takei, Eddie Izzard, Christopher Walken (Although he doesn&#8217;t tweet much anymore&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;anyway&#8230;I tweet.  And I watch.  Mostly I watch. And during last night&#8217;s nightly bout of insomnia I saw this from Myth Buster Grant Imahara&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/starter_ukes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5001\" title=\"starter_ukes\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/starter_ukes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/starter_ukes.jpg 475w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/starter_ukes-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;and the first thing that crossed my mind was <em>Who are Lanikai and Mahalo and why haven&#8217;t I read their stories?<\/em> I have tons of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yaoi\">yaoi<\/a> here at Casa del Garrett and I have never heard of these characters that are supposedly so popular. \u00a0 However, the concept of &#8220;starter ukes&#8221; is&#8230;intriguing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gravitation-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5002\" title=\"gravitation-1\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gravitation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gravitation-1.jpg 339w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gravitation-1-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>What a starter uke might look like&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What I don&#8217;t get is why Shuichi didn&#8217;t make the list. \u00a0 In my opinion he&#8217;d make an excellent starter uke, provided you could handle his mood swings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;yes&#8230;I Twitter. I&#8217;m coming to find that the running Tweet list is a really great way to stay informed and pick up on interesting conversations. Of course, it all depends on who you&#8217;re following. Follow a bunch of vacant celebrities and you get nothing but vacant celebrity babble. But follow people like Atrios, Ezra Klien, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,55,136],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-schrodingers-bag-o-laughs","tag-this-and-that","tag-yaoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}