{"id":131,"date":"2010-07-13T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/07\/testing-the-connections\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:36:00","slug":"testing-the-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/07\/testing-the-connections.html","title":{"rendered":"Testing the Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>With my upcoming travels to Taiwan, England, and India right around the corner, it has been recommended that I somehow unite my social networking world. Yikes. It makes me realize the slight differences in my use of facebook, twitter, and blogger. Likewise the different audiences of each. Now they will be merged.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this will mean less time for me in the social media world and more in the real world\u2026 We shall see\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-2088383012409975912?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my upcoming travels to Taiwan, England, and India right around the corner, it has been recommended that I somehow unite my social networking world. Yikes. It makes me realize the slight differences in my use of facebook, twitter, and blogger. Likewise the different audiences of each. Now they will be merged. 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