{"id":214,"date":"2008-12-22T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-12-22T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:56:24","slug":"the-pencil-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/the-pencil-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pencil Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quite a while ago, my good friend Jason start\u00aded a Twit\u00adter feed about his cat, Sock\u00ading\u00adton<\/a>. The feed has not only become extreme\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar, with over 4,000 fol\u00adlow\u00aders, it\u2019s also become famous to the point of being fea\u00adtured on a New York Times blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To keep up the illu\u00adsion that the cat was mak\u00ading con\u00adstant Twit\u00adter updates, Jason even wrote a script that uploads entries at ran\u00addom times. Need\u00adless to say, this is pre\u00adcise\u00adly the kind of time-wast\u00ading activ\u00adi\u00adty that I thrive on when I\u2019m not\u2014you know\u2014writ\u00ading<\/em>. I want\u00aded in.<\/p>\n

\"blackwarrior_blog_version\"I mulled it over for a cou\u00adple of weeks. If I did this, what kind of feed would I have? I cer\u00adtain\u00adly did\u00adn\u2019t want to update the world every five min\u00adutes about my own pro\u00adcras\u00adti\u00adnat\u00ading sh\u2011t , nor did I want to write about anoth\u00ader f\u2011cking cat.<\/p>\n

I love Sweet\u00adie (my cat), but hon\u00adest\u00adly, she\u2019s a bitchy lit\u00adtle bore. Like a few ex-girl\u00adfriends of mine.<\/p>\n

I want\u00aded a chal\u00adlenge. A POV char\u00adac\u00adter you would\u00adn\u2019t nor\u00admal\u00adly con\u00adsid\u00ader. A POV char\u00adac\u00adter the read\u00ader would be loath to get emo\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly invest\u00aded in.<\/p>\n

Like a pen\u00adcil. Maybe my and John Stein\u00adbeck\u00ad\u2019s pre\u00adferred pen\u00adcil.<\/p>\n

A Mira\u00addo Black War\u00adrior pen\u00adcil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And like Sock\u00ading\u00adton, Mira\u00addo is slick\u00adly mak\u00ading his updates using Jason\u2019s script. I pre-wrote a mon\u00adth\u2019s worth of Tweets so the pen\u00adcil can post updates 2x a day at ran\u00addom times.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy. And tell your friends. I want a mil\u00adlion fol\u00adlow\u00aders.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quite a while ago, my good friend Jason start\u00aded a Twit\u00adter feed about his cat, Sock\u00ading\u00adton. The feed has not only become extreme\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar, with over\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-writingexperiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}