{"id":276,"date":"2008-07-18T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-07-18T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T00:11:09","slug":"simplicity-humility-and-craigslistorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/simplicity-humility-and-craigslistorg\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity, humility and Craigslist.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/p7120152.JPG' title='Craigslist.org'><img src='http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/p7120152.thumbnail.JPG' alt='Craigslist.org' \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen I was in San Francisco, I was walking over to the local grocery store. They don&#8217;t have chain grocery stores in San Francisco. Kei and I were cooking dinner late on a Saturday night, so we went out of our way to find an open convenience\/grocery story. On our way, we passed by a normal looking house with a wire gate. Kei said, &#8220;Hey Ed, there&#8217;s Craigslist HQ.&#8221; I turned and looked for the distant skyscraper, towering on the horizon.  Not seeing one, I looked back at Kei quizically. She pointed at the house beside me. <\/p>\n<p>There beside me, in simple Courier New was the sign of Craiglist.org. It was refreshing to look at something that has become as core to everyday life as Google but has remained small, simple and true to its roots. Come to think of it, it makes sense that the non-profit community bulletin board site would keep to its humble beginnings. In this world of IPO and rampant conquest, this was a refreshing site. Either that, or San Francisco real estate is more profligate than I worst stories I had heard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in San Francisco, I was walking over to the local grocery store. They don&#8217;t have chain grocery stores in San Francisco. Kei and I were cooking dinner late on a Saturday night, so we went out of our way to find an open convenience\/grocery story. On our way, we passed by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}