{"id":5,"date":"2008-09-19T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/09\/19\/a-welcome-from-plain-old-joe-writing\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T11:06:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T15:06:25","slug":"a-welcome-from-plain-old-joe-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/09\/19\/a-welcome-from-plain-old-joe-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"A welcome from &#8220;Plain Old Joe Writing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changed my handle here.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as program director, allow me to welcome all of you to this blog. I also want to post something cheerful and not as gloomy as the response to Carr&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n<p>We will work with writing in some form, no matter the trajectory of human evolution. I have long advocated a richer use of those online spaces and new forms of media. We can, I feel, tame the machine and put it to its best uses.<\/p>\n<p>But then I&#8217;m a digital immigrant. It&#8217;s the &#8220;natives&#8221; who will decide this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changed my handle here. Now, as program director, allow me to welcome all of you to this blog. I also want to post something cheerful and not as gloomy as the response to Carr&#8217;s article. We will work with writing in some form, no matter the trajectory of human evolution. I have long advocated a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/09\/19\/a-welcome-from-plain-old-joe-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A welcome from &#8220;Plain Old Joe Writing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}