{"id":940,"date":"2011-07-08T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2011-07-15T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T18:13:23","slug":"poke-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Poke to the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you wowed any fellow party goers recently with your ability to converse about something other than your thoughts on the crudit\u00e9?\u00a0Been taken on a tour of your friend&#8217;s newly installed wine cellar and been able to offer\u00a0a non-menacing response rather than drop-kick a bottle of Brunello? According to Henry, you owe Facebook a big &#8220;Thank You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2011\/08\/facebook-future-201108\">special supplement in the August issue of <em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>  , Henry\u00a0celebrates the societal gains the oft-criticized social networking site has already produced and predicts what future fruits we are still to harvest. Here&#8217;s hoping that someday we&#8217;ll live in a world where we are free to yell out in a crowded place how many episodes of <em>True Blood<\/em> we watched in bed that day.<\/p>\n<p>And if you need any further proof of Henry&#8217;s Facebook acuity, you can review his analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2011\/08\/facebook-personality-slide-show-201108#slide=1\">The Six Most Common Personality Types on Facebook<\/a> on VanityFair.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you wowed any fellow party goers recently with your ability to converse about something other than your thoughts on the crudit\u00e9?\u00a0Been taken on a tour of your friend&#8217;s newly installed wine cellar and been able to offer\u00a0a non-menacing response rather than drop-kick a bottle of Brunello? According to Henry, you owe Facebook a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}