{"id":10,"date":"2008-01-05T19:25:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-01-05T19:26:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T00:26:01","slug":"today-i-meta-teacup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Today I meta teacup."},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I talked about visitor comments as procedural objects, and my friend Sally took up the challenge by posting a comment that consisted entirely of a link to this lovely teacup. It took me about a day or so to understand what she was getting at.
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\nThe key to the puzzle was to remember that such meta-questions are Sally’s cup of tea. In this case the cup in question is slightly skewed, framed in close-up, lovely in repose. And now with today’s post, the comment becomes the subject, the supposedly omniscient blogger willingly following his visitor down the rabbit hole to a tea party.<\/p>\n

Which is as it should be. Blogging is an oddly asymmetric form of communication that promises personal empowerment yet delivers fiefdoms of petty tyranny. So in a sense the blogiverse practically begs for revolt. And isn’t that what tea parties are for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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