{"id":2778,"date":"2011-07-29T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2014-01-19T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T22:38:13","slug":"coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2011\/07\/29\/coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Part of a poetry slam with <a href=\"http:\/\/coyot.es\">Chris Clarke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Raging and raging in the lengthening thread<br \/>\nThe mood will not heed the moderator;<br \/>\nRules sprout loopholes; the FAQ cannot answer;<br \/>\nMere trollery is loosed upon the site,<br \/>\nThe lambent prose is loosed, and everywhere<br \/>\nThe assumption of good faith is crumbled;<br \/>\nThe best lack all conviction, while the worst<br \/>\nAre full of passionate intensity.<\/p>\n<p>Surely some resolution is at hand;<br \/>\nSurely Going Viral is at hand.<br \/>\nGoing Viral! Hardly are those words onscreen<br \/>\nWhen a vast image out of Fandom Wank<br \/>\nTroubles my stream: somewhere in the wilds of the net<br \/>\nA community with zeitgeist and common purpose,<br \/>\nA cause right and pitiless as the sun,<br \/>\nIs searching for a forum, while all their LJs<br \/>\nTrail threads of the approving, supportive THIS\u2019s.<br \/>\nThe tweets move on again; but now I know<br \/>\nThat 287 TLDs of peaceful sites<br \/>\nWere vexed to nightmare by a raging thread<br \/>\nAnd what rough horde, its cause come round at last<br \/>\nSlouches toward my website to be borne?<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100562415844382241634\/posts\/6khPiou6BXL\">Google+<\/a>, copied to <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/013146.html\">Making Light<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part of a poetry slam with Chris Clarke) Raging and raging in the lengthening thread The mood will not heed the moderator; Rules sprout loopholes; the FAQ cannot answer; Mere trollery is loosed upon the site, The lambent prose is loosed, and everywhere The assumption of good faith is crumbled; The best lack all conviction, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2011\/07\/29\/coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coming++<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1589],"tags":[1868,1789,1787],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doggerel-pastiches","tag-poetry-slam","tag-the-second-coming","tag-yeats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}