{"id":2197,"date":"2012-03-30T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2012-03-31T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T18:42:35","slug":"281-the-seven-year-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2012\/03\/30\/281-the-seven-year-ditch\/","title":{"rendered":"#281: The Seven Year Ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pill_overdoes_retro_grunge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2200\" style=\"margin: 11px;\" title=\"pill_overdoes_retro_grunge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pill_overdoes_retro_grunge-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pill_overdoes_retro_grunge-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pill_overdoes_retro_grunge.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I heard this week that fellow podcast-pioneers <strong><a title=\"CRONCAST\" href=\"http:\/\/croncast.com\" target=\"_blank\">CRONCAST<\/a><\/strong> have called it quits. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0Kris and Betsy Smith started podcasting almost exactly when I did and Croncast is considered one of the early shows that helped popularize podcasting in the dark ages. \u00a0Like me, they even went to a pay-subscription model of some kind, but I&#8217;m not sure when. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know the details but I understand completely. \u00a0Podcasting for podcasting sake is a unique endeavor, and you spend a lot of time (7 years) putting your life out there for the entertainment and reflection of others. \u00a0It&#8217;s gratifying and it&#8217;s tough and I feel like there are fewer and fewer of us around who simply open up the mic and open up their lives. \u00a0They&#8217;ll be missed.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook may have ruined this podcast. \u00a0All the people from my past, who had taken on somewhat mythical purportions in my mind, are now reduced to being real \u00a0living, breathing people who are getting on with their lives just fine without me.<\/p>\n<p>Also, frankly, I&#8221;m not sure I&#8217;m ready for my peers to have adult children. \u00a0Yes, I know that&#8217;s an oxymoron, but you know what I mean. \u00a0&#8220;Adult Offspring.&#8221; \u00a0Especially not ready for them to have &#8220;Hot Adult Offspring.&#8221; \u00a0As soon as we all have &#8220;(Hot) Adult Offspring&#8221; that means that we have been promoted to &#8220;Old People.&#8221; \u00a0Holy crap.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0This edition of The Bitterest Pill is available to Premium Subscribers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this week that fellow podcast-pioneers CRONCAST have called it quits. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0Kris and Betsy Smith started podcasting almost exactly when I did and Croncast is considered one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}