{"id":1119,"date":"2005-02-12T18:44:21","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T23:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/talent_on_the_i"},"modified":"2005-02-12T18:44:21","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T23:44:21","slug":"talent_on_the_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Talent on the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the absolutely mind-blowing benefits of being a blogger, is the vast amount of talent that is available to you with a little bit of link-hopping.<\/p>\n<p>You visit a friend&#8217;s blog and you notice a link to someone else&#8217;s blog and the next thing you know, you find yourself on a site you would never have located on your own. <\/p>\n<p>Let me give an example of an enormous talent I discovered recently. Doug Thompson is a world-class photographer and writer, and god knows what else. He has several websites and a blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgemuse.com\/\"> Blue Ridge Muse<\/a>, deserving of repeat visits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/doug_thompson.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=462,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"370\" height=\"267\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Doug_thompson\" title=\"Doug_thompson\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/doug_thompson.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met him in person for a few minutes and that was enough to make me decide that I am going to find an opportunity to learn photography from him. <\/p>\n<p>I learned more in five minutes of looking at his work and the pictures piled on his desk, than I have in years of reading books on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>I met Doug through <a href=\"http:\/\/fragmentsfromfloyd.com\">Fred First<\/a>, who does an outstanding job of blogging about his quiet corner of Floyd, VA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tag: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/non-zero-sum+publishing\">non-zero-sum publishing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the absolutely mind-blowing benefits of being a blogger, is the vast amount of talent that is available to you with a little bit of link-hopping. You visit a friend&#8217;s blog and you notice a link to someone else&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1119\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1810],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-i3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}