{"id":537,"date":"2009-03-27T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2009-03-27T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T17:31:37","slug":"the-tweet-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/the-tweet-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tweet Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

To date, I haven’t exactly been the model Twitter<\/a> user.\u00c2\u00a0 I have it set to automatically send tweets whenever this blog or LB-DG.com<\/a> are updated (via twitterfeed<\/a>), but aside from that I’ve rarely touched it.<\/p>\n

But that’s going to change this weekend.<\/p>\n

As my Twitter trial by fire, I’m going to post periodic thoughts and updates from The Leap Back<\/a> Quantum Leap convention today, tomorrow, and Sunday.<\/p>\n

You can follow me at twitter.com\/LBDG.<\/a><\/p>\n

Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To date, I haven’t exactly been the model Twitter user.\u00c2\u00a0 I have it set to automatically send tweets whenever this blog or LB-DG.com are updated (via twitterfeed), but aside from that I’ve rarely touched it. But that’s going to change this weekend. As my Twitter trial by fire, I’m going to post periodic thoughts and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-time-travel","tag-quantum-leap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-8F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":689,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/technical-difficulties\/","url_meta":{"origin":537,"position":0},"title":"Technical Difficulties","author":"LBDG","date":"July 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Seems my first try at posting the Quantum Leap fanfic story ran into a little bit of a technical snafu.\u00c2\u00a0 iWeb was converting the text to an image, and the image was so large that some browsers were choking on it.\u00c2\u00a0 I did some tweaking and now it should be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":659,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/ramblings-iii\/","url_meta":{"origin":537,"position":1},"title":"Ramblings III","author":"LBDG","date":"June 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Whenever I (legally) drive through a yellow light it makes me think of Back to the Future and how difficult it would logistically be to time driving through a lightning strike with such precision. 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