{"id":30,"date":"2008-03-08T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T16:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/03\/08\/serendipity-greek-mythological-"},"modified":"2008-03-08T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T17:07:53","slug":"serendipity-greek-mythological-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/2008\/03\/08\/serendipity-greek-mythological-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity, Greek Mythological Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity (&#8230;finding valuable or <em><strong>agreeable things not sought for<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;M-W.com), is something my fellow fellow Ethan Zuckerman has been talking and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/help-im-surrounded-by-librarians\/\">writing<\/a> about for a while. The new\/old\/hybrid media definition is something like this: A media <em>thingamajig<\/em> (newspaper, radio\/tv program, magazine, podcast, website, blog, etc. etc.) that tells me something:<br \/>\n     I never would have looked up in any search engine<br \/>\n     unrelated to any topic I would put in any aggregator<br \/>\n     no one I know would have tagged, emailed, or blogged&#8230;you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Serendipity sighting yesterday &#8212; Morning Edition on WGBH, Garrison Keillor on the Writer&#8217;s Almanac read me a terrific poem by a poet I&#8217;d never heard of: <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/programs\/2008\/03\/03\/#friday\">&#8220;Vex Me&#8221; by Barbara Hamby<\/a>. Personal serendipity squared &#8212; hearing my own name in the poem: <\/p>\n<p>                                                                &#8230;Rebuke me,<br \/>\nrip out my larynx like a lazy snake and feed it to the voiceless<\/p>\n<p>throng. For I am midnight&#8217;s girl, scouring unlit streets<br \/>\nlike Persephone stalking her swarthy lord&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[note to developers &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if were as easy to cut and paste the audio snippet here too?]<\/p>\n<p>Sign me up for the Serendipity Preservation Society, Ethan. Persephone <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity (&#8230;finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for&#8230;M-W.com), is something my fellow fellow Ethan Zuckerman has been talking and writing about for a while. The new\/old\/hybrid media definition is something like this: A media thingamajig (newspaper, radio\/tv program, magazine, podcast, website, blog, etc. etc.) that tells me something: I never would have looked up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1659,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediarepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}