{"id":181,"date":"2003-02-02T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/02\/columbia-company-on-the-web\/"},"modified":"2007-03-18T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T01:32:59","slug":"columbia-company-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/02\/columbia-company-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA: Company on the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long-time readers know, this site started out as a home for my &#8220;highly irregular&#8221; online column, SEMI TRUTHS, with new material coming out an average of every two weeks. Several months ago, I re-fashioned the site as a weblog, mainly to take advantage of the content management tools. Even more recently, I made a decision to start using this site more as, well, a <em>real<\/em> weblog, with the intent of adding material every day. It&#8217;s been a challenge, not because I don&#8217;t have enough to say, but because I want what I write here to be thoughtful and entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard of the Columbia disaster yesterday, my first impulse was to turn to the web. I began writing down my thoughts and reactions to no one in particular, and concluded the day with a review of a concert I attended that afternoon. Going back today and reading those entries, now that the shock has worn off, my comments seem trite and painful. I am tempted to simply delete those entries, but after some thought have decided to leave them as they are. As it turns out, I was not alone. Below is a link to another site that has gathered responses from other weblogs, many just like mine, with other writers struggling to find meaningful words. See <em><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0113212\/categories\/shuttleLost\/\" target=\"_blank\" \/>Shuttle Lost: How the Blog Community reacts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long-time readers know, this site started out as a home for my &#8220;highly irregular&#8221; online column, SEMI TRUTHS, with new material coming out an average of every two weeks. Several months ago, I re-fashioned the site as a weblog, mainly to take advantage of the content management tools. Even more recently, I made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-shuttle-columbia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}