{"id":59,"date":"2004-05-24T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T17:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/05\/24\/blogging-a-family-disaster\/"},"modified":"2004-05-24T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T17:22:34","slug":"blogging-a-family-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/05\/24\/blogging-a-family-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging a Family Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a71'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jay McCarthy has been part of the Harvard blogging scene for the past<br \/>\nyear and coordinated a lot of the community networking (WiFi, webcast,<br \/>\netc.) for the Bloggercon convention this spring.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>His family home burned down this weekend. All family members got out<br \/>\nOK, as did&nbsp; Jay and the laptop he blogs with&#8230; So of course he<br \/>\nblogged about the experience while watching the fire:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeoutcity.com\/Archives\/2004\/05\/23\/174730\/\">It is 7:08 AM on Sunday, May 23rd 2004. I am sitting in my car behind my burning house&#8230;<\/a>&#8220;\n<\/div>\n<p>\nLisa Williams, another Thursday night regular, has started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadence90.com\/blogs\/2004_05_01_nixon_archives.html#108540884250129353\">fund-raising campaign online<\/a>, complete with PayPal contributions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I think of the automated Google ads for fire alarms<br \/>\nand smoke detectors that pop up at the bottom of J&#8217;s weblog item.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.makeoutcity.com\/Archives\/2004\/05\/23\/174730\/'>Blogging a Family Disaster &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay McCarthy has been part of the Harvard blogging scene for the past year and coordinated a lot of the community networking (WiFi, webcast, etc.) for the Bloggercon convention this spring.&nbsp; His family home burned down this weekend. All family members got out OK, as did&nbsp; Jay and the laptop he blogs with&#8230; So of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepnostories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}