{"id":2614,"date":"2008-04-15T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:26:39","slug":"seths-stumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/04\/15\/seths-stumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth&#8217;s Stumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly read Seth Godin&#8217;s blog because I like his insights and his take on permissions and trust.  But I guess everybody has an off day. On this latest blog concerning the ability of the internet to organize public opinion, he offers up two instances of potential ignition.<\/p>\n<div>I have no idea about the Starbucks setting it&#8217;s temperature, but given the other piece of libelous inaccuracy, I&#8217;d give the Starbucks the benefit of the doubt.<\/div>\n<div>He says, without evidence:<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;And the stores in Breckenridge, Colorado keep their doors wide open all winter.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Hey that just ain&#8217;t true.  I&#8217;ve lived long stretches of time in Breckenridge and walked shops.  It&#8217;s cold in Breckenridge.  No body in their right mind would do that.<\/div>\n<div>The sad part is that Seth has developed enough of a presence on the net that people trust what he says, and Breckenridge people will suffer from it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly read Seth Godin&#8217;s blog because I like his insights and his take on permissions and trust. But I guess everybody has an off day. On this latest blog concerning the ability of the internet to organize public opinion, he offers up two instances of potential ignition. I have no idea about the Starbucks&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2008\/04\/15\/seths-stumble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seth&#8217;s Stumble<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[211,374],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}