{"id":961,"date":"2007-08-07T22:53:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T02:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/i-am-an-information-junkie\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T02:53:39","slug":"i-am-an-information-junkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/i-am-an-information-junkie\/","title":{"rendered":"I am an information junkie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read through the 600+ posts that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/omea\/index.html\">my RSS Reader<\/a> had stored up for me in the &#8220;High Interest&#8221; category while I was working too hard over the last several weeks. I had occasionally popped into the reader and read some of what might be called the informal &#8220;Very High Interest&#8221; subset (I really should formalize that), but still got over 600 entries behind over the couple of weeks I was too busy to look at what was going on. None of those feeds are news&#8211;mostly it&#8217;s friends, and book stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to be caught up on those. Now I&#8217;ve just got the other 19,000 new items on my various feeds that aren&#8217;t in the &#8220;High Interest&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;m supposed to take a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Unless I set up <a href=\"http:\/\/reader.google.com\">Google Reader<\/a> with the important feeds&#8230; then I could check those while I traveled&#8230; You know, when Trish wasn&#8217;t looking. Man, I <em>am<\/em> a junkie.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how my life would be different if I spent the same amount of time I spend &#8220;gathering data&#8221; on &#8220;searching for wisdom&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I just read through the 600+ posts that my RSS Reader had stored up for me in the &#8220;High Interest&#8221; category while I was working too hard over the last several weeks. I had occasionally popped into the reader and read some of what might be called the informal &#8220;Very High Interest&#8221; subset (I really should formalize that), but still&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/i-am-an-information-junkie\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-fv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}