{"id":104892,"date":"2016-04-17T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T22:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/17\/inkskinned-i-know-that-people-being-on-their-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T22:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T22:39:48","slug":"inkskinned-i-know-that-people-being-on-their-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/17\/inkskinned-i-know-that-people-being-on-their-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/inkskinned.tumblr.com\/post\/142651858879\" target=\"_blank\">inkskinned<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>i know that people being on their phones has become like a symbol of apathy and uncaring but so many people i know use social media to share love. like yesterday i got to watch a wedding livestreamed to everyone who couldn\u2019t make it. i\u2019ve seen my friend slowly learn how to cope with being a teen mom because of a <i>massive<\/i>\u00a0outpouring of\u00a0\u201cmumblr\u201d support + tips. i\u2019ve seen my friends come out as gay, learn to cook, discover the flaws in their feminism, work for social change, make good life choices, go to amazing places, develop passions, form educated opinions, learn to love themselves. i\u2019ve seen people post the bravest recovery posts and shy political posts and everything in between.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>and i don\u2019t honestly care how edgy you think your art is. what you\u2019re telling me when you draw grey people looking at a white screen is that <i>you<\/i>\u00a0don\u2019t care what happens to the other people in your life.<\/p>\n<p>but i do. i care about the boy i\u2019m in a long distance relationship with, but i also care about people i\u2019ve never met. i\u2019ve been following some people for three years and genuinely care about their experiences. i\u2019m glad you\u2019re still in touch with the people you love, even if you\u2019re not paying attention directly to me!\u00a0i get happy when you finally dump him! i\u2019m sad when your cat gets sick! i <i>give a shit.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>i don\u2019t think technology is taking empathy away from us. i think it\u2019s changing it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inkskinned: i know that people being on their phones has become like a symbol of apathy and uncaring but so many people i know use social media to share love. like yesterday i got to watch a wedding livestreamed to everyone who couldn\u2019t make it. i\u2019ve seen my friend slowly learn how to cope with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/17\/inkskinned-i-know-that-people-being-on-their-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2855,2491,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}