{"id":3135,"date":"2011-05-06T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2011-05-18T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T20:51:57","slug":"tyranny-of-email-john-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/tyranny-of-email-john-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny of Email &#8211; John Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see John Freeman (not a nom de guerre de email) is more of a rejectionist than an alternativist like Luis Suarez, but Freeman does have some points I agree with. I&#8217;m afraid that Freeman, given the answers in the question section, looks back to better times; Suarez and I look forward to better solutions.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" ><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"webhost=fora.tv&#038;clipid=10053&#038;cliptype=clip\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"  \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"autoPlay\" value=\"false\" \/><embed flashvars=\"webhost=fora.tv&#038;clipid=10053&#038;cliptype=clip\" src=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/embedded_player\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" autoPlay=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>John Freeman talks about The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The former president of the National Book Critics Circle and current American Editor of Granta, gives us a history of people&#8217;s need for correspondence. He examines the astonishing growth of e-mail &#8212; how it is changing lives, and not always for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see John Freeman (not a nom de guerre de email) is more of a rejectionist than an alternativist like Luis Suarez, but Freeman does have some points I agree with. I&#8217;m afraid that Freeman, given the answers in the question section, looks back to better times; Suarez and I look forward to better solutions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}