{"id":11390,"date":"2025-10-11T07:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:57:44","slug":"where-to-check-in-on-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/11\/where-to-check-in-on-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to check in on friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on FB mentioned that the garbage on Facebook was becoming intolerable. I concur.<br \/>\nThe FB Purity chrome plugin has made my FB experience much less garbagy, but that&#8217;s a short term solution. I recommend it. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my WordPress blog&#8230; Lee.org to tell people how I&#8217;m doing, you can subscribe to it by email or put it in an RSS reader or just visit monthly to see how I&#8217;m doing. <\/p>\n<p>Where else do we turn for an aggregator of friends to answer &#8220;how are my friends doing?&#8221;    I switched to browsing reddit, quora, and imgur.com the last few months for my &#8220;I need a distraction from reality&#8221; and that has worked well! Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on FB mentioned that the garbage on Facebook was becoming intolerable. I concur. The FB Purity chrome plugin has made my FB experience much less garbagy, but that&#8217;s a short term solution. I recommend it. I&#8217;ve got my WordPress blog&#8230; Lee.org to tell people how I&#8217;m doing, you can subscribe to it by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11391,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11390\/revisions\/11391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}