{"id":29,"date":"2007-05-06T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2007-05-06T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T15:40:24","slug":"givers-and-takers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Givers and Takers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I want to find out the lyrics to a song, or whether a particular juicer is all it&#8217;s cracked up to be, I go to the Web. Just like everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>And I can almost always find it. Whether it&#8217;s amazon.com reviews, or just a personal Web site, someone, somewhere, has posted the information I want, for free. Obviously, it&#8217;s not always true or complete, but that&#8217;s not really my point.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a short stint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/cdp\/member-reviews\/A380VFY7DECYQ7\/ref=cm_aya_av.rev_rev.attrib\/104-2178895-4311146?ie=UTF8&amp;display=anonymous&amp;sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview\">ten years ago<\/a>, I&#8217;ve never posted a review on Amazon, or anywhere else. I use other people&#8217;s input very heavily, but I don&#8217;t give my own.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for travel Web sites, where people ask questions about certain destinations. Lots of people sign in and help out, giving away tons of information to help others. I have experience aplenty, but just don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t go around looking to give information. I go to take. And I bet that most people do exactly what I do. So there&#8217;s some minority out there carrying the rest of us. Thanks, Minority!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I want to find out the lyrics to a song, or whether a particular juicer is all it&#8217;s cracked up to be, I go to the Web. Just like everyone else. And I can almost always find it. Whether it&#8217;s amazon.com reviews, or just a personal Web site, someone, somewhere, has posted the information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}