{"id":182591,"date":"2015-08-01T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/01\/this-is-a-new-social-networking-service-that-i-approve-wholeheartedly\/"},"modified":"2015-08-01T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T00:20:00","slug":"this-is-a-new-social-networking-service-that-i-approve-wholeheartedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/01\/this-is-a-new-social-networking-service-that-i-approve-wholeheartedly\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is a New Social Networking Service That I Approve Wholeheartedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It requires no computer, though it does require a functioning elbow.  It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailymash.co.uk\/news\/society\/offline-social-networking-service-called-pub-launched-2015062499538\">is called pub<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A middle-aged visionary has launched an offline service called \u2018pub\u2019, which allows friends to interact in a building.<\/p>\n<p>Overweight, balding 46-year-old Martin Bishop sees \u2018pub\u2019, known locally as The Woodcutter\u2019s Arms, as a place where people can verbally communicate while drinking beer.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThere\u2019s Steak Night on Tuesdays and a ska band every third Friday. Hopefully we\u2019re getting the toilets done next month because they\u2019re a bit grim at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>24-year old blogger Nikki Hollis commented: \u201cI love going to the pub because it\u2019s so interactive and exciting. For example, my friend will say something about her life, and then I comment, and then she comments back, and then I comment, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>However police have warned about the potential dangers of \u2018pub\u2019: \u201cPeople in the pub aren\u2019t always who they seem to be. A middle-aged man could claim to be a small girl. Stay alert, use your eyes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if they could come up with a sports themed version of this.<\/p>\n<p>I think that &#8220;Sports Pub&#8221; could be a real winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It requires no computer, though it does require a functioning elbow. It is called pub: A middle-aged visionary has launched an offline service called \u2018pub\u2019, which allows friends to interact in a building. Overweight, balding 46-year-old Martin Bishop sees \u2018pub\u2019, known locally as The Woodcutter\u2019s Arms, as a place where people can verbally communicate while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,997,1070,1050,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-internet","category-parody","category-snark","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}