{"id":4935,"date":"2012-12-26T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2012-12-26T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:40:31","slug":"people-i-may-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4935","title":{"rendered":"People I may know??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/helen-mirren.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/helen-mirren.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"helen-mirren\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook flatters and amuses me sometimes with the people it thinks I may know. Helen Mirren? Not hardly. And today Facebook thinks I may know Susan Sarandon. I have no idea why. I don&#8217;t think she shops at the same grocery store I do.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook seems to think that I know pretty much all the San Francisco city supervisors and political muckedy-mucks, and even a few muckedy-mucks and pundits in Washington, like David Frum. That&#8217;s no mystery, though. I know a lot of journalists, and journalists &#8212; who ought to be keeping their distance &#8212; are &#8220;friending&#8221; their sources. Tsk. Tsk. I did once get an angry phone call from Tom Ammiano after he didn&#8217;t like an op-ed I wrote in the San Francisco Examiner. My former boss at the Examiner was married to Sharon Stone. That marriage has ended, but I can see on Facebook who he hangs out with these days. Hi, Sean. I don&#8217;t think I know you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As for Helen Mirren, I&#8217;m friends with two writers who obviously know her and other Hollywood types. I frequently get pictures sloshing over of Laura Linney, or Ian McKellen. Unfortunately I never met them, nor would they be interested in being Facebook friends with nobodys like me. Susan Sarandon? I have no idea what the connection, if any, that Facebook is finding might be. But I do see enough material sloshing over from our social superiors on Facebook to know that they are on Facebook, they all know each other, they don&#8217;t know us, and they have way more fun than we do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sarandon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sarandon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sarandon\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4937\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook flatters and amuses me sometimes with the people it thinks I may know. Helen Mirren? Not hardly. And today Facebook thinks I may know Susan Sarandon. I have no idea why. I don&#8217;t think she shops at the same grocery store I do. Facebook seems to think that I know pretty much all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People I may know??&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}