{"id":43,"date":"2007-03-12T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T08:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/?p=43"},"modified":"2007-03-12T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T08:44:44","slug":"killing-the-messenger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/2007\/03\/12\/killing-the-messenger-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing the messenger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just don&#8217;t make sense, it&#8217;s not irony, it&#8217;s not fate, it&#8217;s just something senseless you face every day. SMS was one of the greatest inventions ever, but you can never know what you&#8217;re sent. If you get SMSed in the middle of the day with a casual &#8220;Hi&#8221; from one of your exs, you don&#8217;t know what to expect, right?<\/p>\n<p>If you get it in the middle of the night, you usually do know, right? i know i do.<\/p>\n<p>Communication is one of our basic needs, we need it for warmth, we need to know what&#8217;s going on with our friends. But communication is the evil that should not be also.<\/p>\n<p>I left my phone open during Saturday&#8217;s fundraiser for the Dolev Foundation. Getting a message this way is usually something terrible just enough to kill the messenger. I was notified that one of my friend&#8217;s mother just died. and it was not over SMS, but over a message said to me by the person which answered the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but in the Information age we do have this information problem, i do not want to be dumped by SMS, nor on the phone or by a Dear John letter, i want to be dumped in a civil manner, face to face. the same thing for knowing someone died, though the last two were on the phone. It&#8217;s surprising that in this day we still need to be near someone that tells us the message, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just don&#8217;t make sense, it&#8217;s not irony, it&#8217;s not fate, it&#8217;s just something senseless you face every day. SMS was one of the greatest inventions ever, but you can never know what you&#8217;re sent. If you get SMSed in the middle of the day with a casual &#8220;Hi&#8221; from one of your exs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}