{"id":1658,"date":"2005-10-18T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2005-10-18T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T17:38:00","slug":"1658","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Like, I think, a lot of people, I pretty much gave up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/\">Meetup.com<\/a> around the time they started imposing monthly fees for group organizers. (With options like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\">craigslist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo Groups<\/a> available for free, I honestly don&#8217;t know what they were thinking.) It wasn&#8217;t a difficult decision, and it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;d had any luck actually <i>meeting<\/i> people there &#8212; Long Island being somewhat under-represented. I just closed the one or two groups that I&#8217;d tried without success to organize, and I didn&#8217;t look back. <\/p>\n<p>Except, I didn&#8217;t completely <i>leave<\/i>. I still get occasional e-mail alerts from Meetup, letting me know that such-and-such a group is meeting, or that so-and-so has joined. And it occurs to me that they&#8217;re either running increasingly low on members in my immediate area &#8212; at $19.95 a month, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised &#8212; or somebody there needs a quick geography lesson <\/p>\n<p>Because New York and New Jersey? Different places.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like, I think, a lot of people, I pretty much gave up on Meetup.com around the time they started imposing monthly fees for group organizers. (With options like craigslist and Yahoo Groups available for free, I honestly don&#8217;t know what they were thinking.) It wasn&#8217;t a difficult decision, and it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;d had any &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=1658\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}