{"id":408,"date":"2009-04-01T16:11:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T00:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostlynf.wordpress.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2009-04-01T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T00:11:31","slug":"april-fools-part2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"April Fool&#8217;s Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to set two spoofs in motion this April Fool&#8217;s Day.  One was for our staff on my library&#8217;s intranet page, and one was for the public on Twitter. I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/mostlynf.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/01\/april-fools-part1-2\/\">the staff prank<\/a> in my previous post.  Here&#8217;s the one for the <em>public<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3603\/3402048995_1ce08abd7f_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>My library has many, many online services, including books on tape, downloadable books, online tutorial help, etc.  We also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/PierceCoLibrary\/\">a Twitter account<\/a> that I maintain with quick, 140-character messages about materials, resources, and life in the library.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I decided to introduce a new service on Twitter &#8212; <strong>full-length &#8220;Books on Twitter&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; and posted the following tweets each hour, all-day long.  It took all day to finish just the first sentence!\u00a0 (The full book would have been about 7,194 tweets had I kept going.)  This might not be greatest idea, huh?\u00a0  Oh, well.\u00a0 It got some fun patron reaction anyway.\u00a0 A dozen followers retweeted or replied with encouragement. NOTE: Read this in reverse order, starting at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"PierceCoLibraryTwitter by scampion, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scampion\/3405040873\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3432\/3405040873_d8043fd80e_o.jpg\" alt=\"PierceCoLibraryTwitter\" width=\"453\" height=\"861\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to set two spoofs in motion this April Fool&#8217;s Day. One was for our staff on my library&#8217;s intranet page, and one was for the public on Twitter. I posted the staff prank in my previous &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[28,40,65,100,179,216],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sidebar","tag-a-tale-of-two-cities","tag-april-fools","tag-books-on-twitter","tag-dickens","tag-prank","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}