{"id":1521,"date":"2009-12-13T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2009-12-13T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:26:23","slug":"the-ugly-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/12\/13\/the-ugly-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"The ugly reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I type &#8220;troll&#8221; into my browser, I&#8217;m immediately taken to Wikipedia&#8217;s page on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troll_%28Internet%29\">Troll (Internet)<\/a>. That&#8217;s appropriate, since it was internet trolls &#8211; those icky anonymous assassins &#8211; I was thinking of when I decided to write about &#8220;my&#8221; ugly reader.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, when I post, I imagine a beautiful reader &#8211; someone like myself: open-minded, strong, analytical, capable of synthetic reasoning, etc. etc. However, from time to time, someone really ugly comes along, however: weak, anonymous, and &#8230;well, <em>crazed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, WordPress has spam filters and moderation queues, so I can shield you, Dear (Beautiful) Reader, from that Ugly Reader&#8217;s ugliness.<\/p>\n<p>So consider this your lucky, beautiful day. No ugly trolls for you! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/story\/2236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/attract\/images\/wa\/WASEAtroll2_balz.jpg\" alt=\"Fremont Troll\" width=\"198\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fremont Troll<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I type &#8220;troll&#8221; into my browser, I&#8217;m immediately taken to Wikipedia&#8217;s page on Troll (Internet). That&#8217;s appropriate, since it was internet trolls &#8211; those icky anonymous assassins &#8211; I was thinking of when I decided to write about &#8220;my&#8221; ugly reader. Usually, when I post, I imagine a beautiful reader &#8211; someone like myself: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1652,1903],"tags":[14141,14140],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authenticity","category-writing","tag-readers","tag-trolls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}