{"id":1492,"date":"2007-06-01T19:34:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2007-06-01T19:34:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T02:34:28","slug":"there-is-no-joy-in-blogville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1492\/there-is-no-joy-in-blogville\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no joy in Blogville"},"content":{"rendered":"

This title is a take-off on the famous baseball poem, Casey at the Bat<\/em>, by E.L. Thayer. It was originally published in the San Francisco Examiner<\/a>, some 99 years ago.<\/p>\n

I’m on a panel in San Francisco on August 1 with two esteemed weblog platform providers<\/a>. I’m a bit intimidated so I’ve been doing lots of homework. I thought I’d read all their stuff so I can understand what they’re talking about.<\/p>\n

One of my co-panelists is talking about free source code<\/a> while the other co-panelist hints of theft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d discuss how I hustle up some business from a Realtor or two I’ve met on weblogs. Apparently, this game is a whole lot more complicated than I thought it was.<\/p>\n

There may be no joy in Bayville…someone’s gonna strike out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This title is a take-off on the famous baseball poem, Casey at the Bat, by E.L. Thayer. It was originally published in the San Francisco Examiner, some 99 years ago. I’m on a panel in San Francisco on August 1 with two esteemed weblog platform providers. I’m a bit intimidated so I’ve been doing lots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2941,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2941\/nordstrom-dave-liniger-remax-and-web-20\/","url_meta":{"origin":1492,"position":0},"title":"Nordstrom, Dave Liniger, RE\/MAX and Web 2.0","author":"Jeff Kempe","date":"April 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m just not a rah-rah guy. 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