{"id":1836,"date":"2008-02-13T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2008\/02\/13\/the-internet-is-a-small-world\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:26:12","slug":"the-internet-is-a-small-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2008\/02\/13\/the-internet-is-a-small-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet is a small world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Ben Hammersly&#8217;s blog, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/benhammersley.com\/2008\/02\/hertzian-overlays-and-the-lack-thereof\/\" title=\"Hertzian overlays, and the lack thereof\">linked to<\/a> an <a href=\"http:\/\/speedbird.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/10\/shielding-undistraction-and-conviviality-and-my-central-dogma\/\" title=\"Shielding, undistraction and conviviality, and my central\u00c2\u00a0dogma\">entry<\/a>  in Adam Greenfield&#8217;s blog. I followed that, and in the comments, saw a name I hadn&#8217;t run across since I was about seven years old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.varnelis.net\/\" title=\"varnelis.net | network culture\">Kazys Varnelis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kazy, as I knew him, grew up a few doors west of me, and was a year or two younger (still is, I imagine). &#8220;What are the odds of there being a completely unrelated Kazys Varnelis?&#8221; I asked myself. I dropped him a line, and sure enough, it&#8217;s my childhood neighbor. Funny to run across him so randomly, and good to see that he&#8217;s apparently up to some very interesting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a maze of twisty weblogs, back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[308,386,392],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-neighor","tag-serendipity","tag-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}