{"id":182,"date":"2003-02-09T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T17:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/09\/the-parser-of-cville\/"},"modified":"2007-03-18T21:23:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T01:23:41","slug":"the-parser-of-cville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/09\/the-parser-of-cville\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PARSER OF CVILLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

With so much information available on the web, there are only a few places I turn to on a regular basis to find interesting and updated content. One of the most reliable is CVillenews.com<\/a>, a meta-news site for Charlottesville<\/a>, VA (USA), my town of residence. Running since March of 2001, the site carries abstracts and links of stories from other Charlottesville mainstream news sites and provides a forums for registered users to post their own reactions or to submit original items.Recently, there was a thread<\/a> regarding Charlottesville’s City Council approving a resolution against a pre-emptive U.S. military attack on Iraq (as part of the Cities for Peace<\/a><\/em> movement). The discussion that followed predictably defended and excoriated the council, but also veered into discussions regarding the roles of elected councilors in an representative democracy, providing a cross-section look into the opinions and politics that drive a small University town.<\/p>\n

In another example, several months ago I witnessed a remarkable apparition in the skies above Charlottesville, a kind of inverted rainbow high in the sky and pointing toward the sun. At the first opportunity, I logged onto CVillenews, provided a quick description<\/a>, and asked every one to run outside and take a look, hoping someone could tell me what I had seen. Sure enough, less than an hour later I had my answer: it was a circumzenithal arc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The site is run by volunteers, with no ads and no one making any money. It provides a lively forum for debate, breaking news, and generally good-natured discussion. Even if you do not live in or near Charlottesville, it is worth taking a look at this shining example of just how good the web can be for a community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With so much information available on the web, there are only a few places I turn to on a regular basis to find interesting and updated content. One of the most reliable is CVillenews.com, a meta-news site for Charlottesville, VA (USA), my town of residence. Running since March of 2001, the site carries abstracts and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cville","category-www"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}