{"id":5260,"date":"2012-12-02T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2013-05-27T10:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T15:26:39","slug":"signing-off-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/signing-off-permanently\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing off permanently&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye World!<\/p>\n<p>It was a great time, but I just don&#8217;t blog any more. I&#8217;ve decided to delete the tweets, but leave the rest of the archive online, never to bother with my feed again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially fond of the many, many exhibition reviews in Johannesburg from the mid-2000s. There are some great bits of personal stuff, politics, and oddness before and after that, as well as in between &#8211; some of which I am embarrassed by, others might be fun to troll through. All cc-licensed &#8211; so perhaps one day, someone, somewhere, will get some use out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I&#8217;m on the Book of Faces (as a real person, not a &#8220;like-able&#8221; artist), and use the Birdy Tweets.<\/p>\n<p>For now.<\/p>\n<p>Fare thee well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye World! It was a great time, but I just don&#8217;t blog any more. I&#8217;ve decided to delete the tweets, but leave the rest of the archive online, never to bother with my feed again. I&#8217;m especially fond of the many, many exhibition reviews in Johannesburg from the mid-2000s. There are some great bits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-1mQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":413,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/26\/physical-computing-in-south-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":5260,"position":0},"title":"physical computing in South Africa","author":"nathaniel","date":"26 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a pic of some of my MA students (Colleen Alborough, Sue Van Zyl and Nick Nesbitt, respectively) from the Wits Digital Media MA. 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