{"id":3757,"date":"2011-02-16T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2011-02-16T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T23:23:43","slug":"col-pat-lang-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"COL Pat Lang on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n<p>Excellent news!\u00a0 COL <strong>Patrick Lang<\/strong> has now signed up on <strong>Twitter<\/strong>, so a quick and easy way to know when he&#8217;s posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/turcopolier.typepad\/sic_semper_tyrannis\/\">Sic Semper Tyrranis<\/a> is to follow him <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/pat_lang\">@pat_lang<\/a>. I hope he&#8217;ll post the occasional quick comment on &#8212; or pointer to &#8212; breaking news there, too.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that&#8217;s the main message here &#8212; but there&#8217;s also an amusing aside to be made.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to pride myself (I&#8217;m afraid that&#8217;s probably the right word) on my humility &#8212; so you can imagine how I felt when I discovered earlier today that <strong>Twitter<\/strong> was doing my humility for me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/humility-by-twitter.jpg\" title=\"humility-by-twitter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/humility-by-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"humility-by-twitter.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right: as a follower of COL Lang, I rate precisely zero.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humility by twitter<\/strong> &#8212; is our technology getting wise to us at last?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron ] Excellent news!\u00a0 COL Patrick Lang has now signed up on Twitter, so a quick and easy way to know when he&#8217;s posted at Sic Semper Tyrranis is to follow him @pat_lang. I hope he&#8217;ll post the occasional quick comment on &#8212; or pointer to &#8212; breaking news there, too. * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,191,321,2,526,371,47,123,150,19,95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-anthropology","category-blogosphere","category-blogroll","category-charles-cameron","category-humor","category-intelligence","category-lang","category-military-intelligence","category-recommended-reading","category-sic-semper-tyrannis","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}