{"id":1233,"date":"2007-06-20T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/ridgecrest-blog-wow\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T00:59:47","slug":"ridgecrest-blog-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/ridgecrest-blog-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgecrest Blog &#8211; WOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have selected a fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearflagleague.com\/\">Bear Flag League<\/a> member, <a href=\"http:\/\/ridgecrest.blogspot.com\/\">Ridgecrest Blog<\/a> as this week&#8217;s Weblog of the Week (WOW). <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1236\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/sleepingcomputer.gif\" alt=\"sleepingcomputer.gif\" class=\"left\" \/>Quoting David, the proprietor, it&#8217;s about &#8220;A South Dakota boy blogging about life and stuff in Ridgecrest, a small town in California&#8217;s upper Mojave Desert. Ridgecrest is not the end of the world. But when the wind blows just right&#8230; you can smell it from here.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>David writes about his family, twins and all, and mixes in enough political sage stuff to render a blend of anecdotal humor and perspectives on the world. Quoting his FAQ page, &#8220;I&#8217;m not writing this for you. I&#8217;m writing it for me. If someone else besides me finds some enjoyment from it &#8211; great. If you find it boring and mindless then I&#8217;m sorry you chose to waste your time here being bored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t been bored yet. We&#8217;re happy to name <a href=\"http:\/\/ridgecrest.blogspot.com\/\">Ridgecrest Blog<\/a> as our <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/category\/weblog-of-the-week\/\">Weblog of the Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sleeping computer nerd graphic shamelessly stolen from Ridgecrest Blog<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ridgecrest.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/weblog-of-week.html\">Ridgecrest Blog Responds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have selected a fellow Bear Flag League member, Ridgecrest Blog as this week&#8217;s Weblog of the Week (WOW). Quoting David, the proprietor, it&#8217;s about &#8220;A&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}