{"id":418,"date":"2006-10-24T08:37:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T08:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/10\/five_forks_in_wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2006-10-24T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T08:37:01","slug":"five_forks_in_wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/10\/five_forks_in_wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Forks in Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure why I ended up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29\">Georgia entry in Wikipedia<\/a>, but I thought I would edit the page and add Five Forks as one of the towns in Georgia. To my surprise, I found it was already there. However, it had no link and no article of its own. So I created an account and added an article. There isn&#8217;t much there, but I think I&#8217;ll try to build it up. It is amazing how much trouble someone has gone to on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snellville%2C_Georgia\">Snellville article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Five Forks, Georgia\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Five Forks, Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is one of the most amazing things that has ever happened on the internet. As Ted has asked, &#8220;Why would anyone ever buy an encyclopedia?&#8221; One answer is: &#8220;To look at all the colorful flags.&#8221; That&#8217;s one of the things I remember doing. But Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gallery_of_sovereign_state_flags\">has flags, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure why I ended up on the Georgia entry in Wikipedia, but I thought I would edit the page and add Five Forks as one of the towns in Georgia. To my surprise, I found it was already there. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/10\/five_forks_in_wikipedia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}