{"id":5819,"date":"2017-01-30T04:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/on-the-value-of-twitter-as-a-research-tool\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T04:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T04:29:44","slug":"on-the-value-of-twitter-as-a-research-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/on-the-value-of-twitter-as-a-research-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Value of Twitter as a Research Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article\/20170129\/OPINION02\/170129223\/1004\/opinion\">George Will<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In 2013, a college student assigned to research a deadly substance sought help via Twitter: &quot;I can&#39;t find the chemical and physical properties of sarin gas someone please help me.&quot; An expert at a security consulting firm tried to be helpful, telling her that sarin is not gas. She replied, &quot;yes the (expletive) it is a gas you ignorant (expletive). sarin is a liquid &amp; can evaporate &#8230; shut the (expletive) up.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Will: In 2013, a college student assigned to research a deadly substance sought help via Twitter: &quot;I can&#39;t find the chemical and physical properties of sarin gas someone please help me.&quot; An expert at a security consulting firm tried to be helpful, telling her that sarin is not gas. She replied, &quot;yes the (expletive) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/on-the-value-of-twitter-as-a-research-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Value of Twitter as a Research Tool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}