{"id":905,"date":"2007-08-10T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2007-08-10T10:17:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T00:17:38","slug":"sl-meets-home-and-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"SL meets Home and Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Home and Garden Section has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/09\/garden\/09second.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1\"><strong>SecondLife homes and gardens<\/strong><\/a>, profiling several &#8216;builders&#8217; and &#8216;gardeners&#8217; &#8211; this is a good change in the media from sensationalist pieces about sex, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,22161037-28737,00.html\"><strong>griefers and terrorists<\/strong><\/a> and is starting to bring the old media discussion back to where the majority are in SecondLife. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image904\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/homeandGarden.jpg\" alt=\"New York Times\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is, using SL to build the house of their dreams and playing out harmless fantasies that are not too dissimilar from real life &#8211; but without the cold wind or the wet holidays.<\/p>\n<p>So bouquets to the New York Times for bringing the discussion back to the reality of virtuality.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Home and Garden Section has an article on SecondLife homes and gardens, profiling several &#8216;builders&#8217; and &#8216;gardeners&#8217; &#8211; this is a good change in the media from sensationalist pieces about sex, griefers and terrorists and is starting to bring the old media discussion back to where the majority are in SecondLife. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-new-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}