{"id":1597,"date":"2016-05-07T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T11:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2016-05-07T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T05:26:06","slug":"bringing-you-little-conversational-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/05\/07\/bringing-you-little-conversational-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing You Little Conversational Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was out at lunch, and a good friend of mine was telling a story about &#8216;fishing for piranhas&#8217;.  As he mentioned, &#8220;it&#8217;s about as easy as you&#8217;d expect.  You put some meat on a stick and dip it into the water.  They&#8217;re really bony when you try to eat them, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s such a delicious joy in bringing little conversational nuggets to people.  Sometimes, it almost feels like this is what humans are made for, sharing bits of information back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>S talks about how we go out into the world, and then bring each other back little stories to share, kind of like bringing twigs back to build our nest together.<\/p>\n<p>Memes are real.  Tell your friends. [1]<\/p>\n<p>It may help bring you closer together.<\/p>\n<p>[1]Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was out at lunch, and a good friend of mine was telling a story about &#8216;fishing for piranhas&#8217;. As he mentioned, &#8220;it&#8217;s about as easy as you&#8217;d expect. You put some meat on a stick and dip it into the water. They&#8217;re really bony when you try to eat them, though.&#8221; There&#8217;s such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/05\/07\/bringing-you-little-conversational-nuggets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bringing You Little Conversational Nuggets<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}