{"id":118,"date":"2008-04-02T20:49:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T01:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-04-02T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T02:19:27","slug":"an-nyc-missed-connection-and-a-pillow-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/an-nyc-missed-connection-and-a-pillow-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"an NYC missed connection, and a pillow fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For everyone who has ever asked &#8220;Do craigslist missed connections actually work?&#8221; this video is for you.<\/p>\n<p>The theorist in me has to point out that a missed connections attempts to reconstruct an interaction so that the other-half of the would-be connection will respond (think &#8216;intertextuality&#8217; and &#8216;Kriteva&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>Or in other words, &#8220;Yeah, the odds are pretty low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So why not use YouTube to help you reconstruct the scene via video? (It might even go viral!)<\/p>\n<p>But really, what is up with the pillow fight?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUnk7cFfv0M?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslistblog.org\/2008\/04\/01\/missed-connections-nyc-pillow-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\">craiglist blog<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For everyone who has ever asked &#8220;Do craigslist missed connections actually work?&#8221; this video is for you. The theorist in me has to point out that a missed connections attempts to reconstruct an interaction so that the other-half of the would-be connection will respond (think &#8216;intertextuality&#8217; and &#8216;Kriteva&#8217;). Or in other words, &#8220;Yeah, the odds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}