{"id":116471,"date":"2018-03-31T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/116471\/the-alternative-to-fb-i-hope-so\/"},"modified":"2018-03-31T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T20:59:07","slug":"the-alternative-to-fb-i-hope-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/116471\/the-alternative-to-fb-i-hope-so\/","title":{"rendered":"the alternative to FB? I hope so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"3\">At some point, I started to see problems with Facebook&#8230;in reality, the problems are with Humans; my reasons for being here again after however many years it&#8217;s been are no longer clear to me but here I am in any case&#8230;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s ANY secure website on the Internet, but I&#8217;m not gonna let that stop me&#8230;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"> For whoever may be the least bit interested, I retired a few months ago. I&#8217;m not yet bored with retirement; financially, I&#8217;m doing OK&#8211;not great perhaps, but OK&#8230;After a number of years without a car, I now have one&#8230;and it&#8217;s paid for&#8230;it is a very good feeling to be able to come and go as I please&#8230;The roomie can do what she wants, I can do what I want&#8230;and we do stuff together&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"> Up until\u00a0this past Thursday, I was in a Beach Boys tribute Band&#8230;Immediately after we played a handful of songs at a (not exactly) nearby bar, I quit the group. We absolutely sucked&#8230;and I was so uptight that, while jamming with some other folks, it took a LONG while for my guitar playing to get to its&#8217; usual level, however high (or low) that may be&#8230;my plan for tonight is to go check out some local bands&#8230;that could be fun&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point, I started to see problems with Facebook&#8230;in reality, the problems are with Humans; my reasons for being here again after however many years it&#8217;s been are no longer clear to me but here I am in any case&#8230;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s ANY secure website on the Internet, but I&#8217;m not gonna let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}