{"id":3941,"date":"2022-02-22T14:16:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T00:27:51","slug":"it-has-been-ten-years-almost-to-the-day-since-i-linked-to-one-of-jeremys-projects-this-is-neglectful-and-i-apologize-jeremy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2022\/02\/22\/it-has-been-ten-years-almost-to-the-day-since-i-linked-to-one-of-jeremys-projects-this-is-neglectful-and-i-apologize-jeremy\/","title":{"rendered":"It has been ten years almost to the DAY since I linked to one of Jeremy&#8217;s projects. This is neglectful and I apologize, Jeremy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get pretty excited when someone whose creative work I have long admired puts out a nice long essay, these days, because I am&#8212;and I cannot emphasize this enough&#8212;forty. Jeremy Penner, who has been the kind of historian who actively makes more history ever since I came to know him, dropped a bombshell of such an essay into my Old Reader just this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Quite frankly, nobody who wasn&#8217;t an <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.information-superhighway.net\/pow-zap-comics-on-the-internet-on-the-big-screen-biff\" title=\"Even if I didn't know Jeremy, I like to think that I would have pricked up my ears and gestured for silence the moment these words were typed.\">absolute fanatical follower of webcomics discourse 20 years ago<\/a> has any idea what the fuck this means.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>But I am just such a one,<\/i> and this filled some gaps in my <a href=\"https:\/\/chex.chainsawsuit.com\/d\/20050516.shtml\" title=\"Speaking of archives that are already succumbing.\">understanding<\/a> of the little sphere wherein I came of age. I value this kind of clear and well-founded writing so much. It&#8217;s the counterpoint to the Wesley Aptekar-Cassels quote I posted earlier today: archives may succumb, but archivists keep fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get pretty excited when someone whose creative work I have long admired puts out a nice long essay, these days, because I am&#8212;and I cannot emphasize this enough&#8212;forty. Jeremy Penner, who has been the kind of historian who actively makes more history ever since I came to know him, dropped a bombshell of such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,118,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-mild-lunacy","category-nostalgia","category-obsessions","category-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}