{"id":7293,"date":"2010-02-28T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2010-02-28T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T16:40:48","slug":"formspring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7293","title":{"rendered":"Formspring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.formspring.me\/\">Formspring<\/a>. Or at least, I&#8217;d love to be able to co-opt it for my use.  People ask questions. You answer them.  Looks like fun.<\/p>\n<p>I get a lot of questions in email.  Not simple, easy questions like, &#8220;Have you played Explodious 2: The Explodening?&#8221; No, it&#8217;s usually complex stuff about procedural content or DRM. Sometimes I convert the longer answers into posts here on the blog, but it&#8217;s always a little awkward to get permission to quote a private email in a public post and then to figure out which details of the email need to be edited.  It also feels odd to take bits of text I sent as an email and post them here on the blog.  I don&#8217;t know why, but it feels unseemly.<\/p>\n<p>Formspring gives a way for people to ask publicly visible questions, but then the system sort of expects the person being questioned to put their answer on Formspring.  Which, I have to admit, isn&#8217;t unreasonable. But I&#8217;d rather my answers become part of <em>this<\/em> site. What I really need &#8211; and just realized this while typing the previous sentence &#8211; is a way for people to post questions publicly. Hang on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Done. <\/p>\n<p>I made <a href=\"?page_id=7305\">this page<\/a>.  I have no idea if it will help shift some of the private questions into public posts.  If people find it useful, it&#8217;ll stay.  If they don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll take it down.  Further suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of Formspring. Or at least, I&#8217;d love to be able to co-opt it for my use. People ask questions. You answer them. Looks like fun. I get a lot of questions in email. Not simple, easy questions like, &#8220;Have you played Explodious 2: The Explodening?&#8221; No, it&#8217;s usually complex stuff about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}