{"id":538,"date":"2004-09-12T23:31:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T07:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=538"},"modified":"2004-09-12T23:31:31","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T07:31:31","slug":"me-and-euan-and-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/me-and-euan-and-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and Euan and Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Euan Semple<\/a> was the first blogger I ever read. The night I discovered Blogger back in 2001, he had just been picked as a “Blog of Note” and so I cruised over to his page and loved what I saw. There was a link to this interview with Brian Arthur<\/a> which has turned out to be a pertty influential piece to me. <\/p>\n

When I declared this blog’s parentage<\/a>, I represented myself as the grateful child of a same sex union of The Obviou<\/a>s and Wood s Lot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And now I know the reason why I groove on Euan’s stuff. It turns out that Euan and I are almost related in real life. My wife’s counsin, Robin McMorran was visiting today. This is the first time he’s ever been to Canada. I asked him where he worked and when he said “the BBC” and mentioned that he did some web stuff, I asked if he knew Euan. He does, used to work with him and still contributes to some of the in house forums there. Like Euan, I was gobsmacked<\/a> but not entirely surprised. There is something about blogging that makes these kinds of connections seems almost expected. They fall nicely into place. <\/p>\n

When you really groove on a connection with someone’s work, dig a little deeper and you’ll probably find a lot fewer than six degress of seperation there.<\/p>\n

And Euan…when Robin gets back in a couple of weeks, ask him to show you the pictures of Bowen Island. I think you’ll be here sooner than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Euan Semple was the first blogger I ever read. The night I discovered Blogger back in 2001, he had just been picked as a “Blog of Note” and so I cruised over to his page and loved what I saw. There was a link to this interview with Brian Arthur which has turned out to be a pertty influential piece to me. When I declared this blog’s parentage, I represented myself as the grateful child of a same sex union of The Obvious and Wood s Lot. And now I know the reason why I groove on Euan’s stuff. It …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-8G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}