{"id":7,"date":"2018-02-06T07:54:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T07:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/?p=7"},"modified":"2018-02-06T07:54:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T07:54:54","slug":"love-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/2018\/02\/06\/love-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Love Online<\/em> is a story about two kids who met online and started dating.\u00a0 The idea of having internet boyfriends and girlfriends online seemed crazy to us back then but now seems like such a common every day thing.\u00a0 The story really hit close to me personally because I have strong memories of having little boyfriends when I would play some online games growing up like Club Penguin.\u00a0 Even though that site doesn\u2019t exist anymore, my memories live on strong and I still remember a lot of those boys who I took a liking to.<\/p>\n<p>Modern technology was huge for this story.\u00a0 There would be no story without technology.\u00a0 The idea that two people from various parts of the world can come together through a laptop is incredible.\u00a0 It really shows that technology is incredible and can help bring the world together in many types of ways.<\/p>\n<p>When we think of a matchmaker, we normally don\u2019t think of our computer or phone, but this day and age, anyone can find someone to love with just the press of a few buttons.\u00a0 It is unique to see that anyone can meet anyone now a day.\u00a0 It helps keep the world more connected just through the internet.<\/p>\n<p>These kids gambled everything on the hope that the person they were talking to was who they were claiming to be.\u00a0 What would have happened if one of them was a catfish?\u00a0 People are just willing to give out such personal information just because of the bonds made online.\u00a0 I know those feelings, I would have those with friends of mine who live in Canada, but I\u2019ve only met online.\u00a0 There are people who know more about me from just playing a video game with me then people who are my friends in real life.<\/p>\n<p>An important lesson to take away from this story is that love can come to you in many ways.\u00a0 Never keep doors closed unless it\u2019s for your actual safety.\u00a0 I think that everyone has a soulmate, you just must be willing to look in unexpected places to find them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love Online is a story about two kids who met online and started dating.\u00a0 The idea of having internet boyfriends and girlfriends online seemed crazy to us back then but now seems like such a common every day thing.\u00a0 The story really hit close to me personally because I have strong memories of having little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sraslawski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}