{"id":1720,"date":"2022-01-30T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T09:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.178.50\/wordpress\/?page_id=1720"},"modified":"2022-08-19T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T11:16:55","slug":"pod-points-of-departure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/?page_id=1720","title":{"rendered":"PoD (Points of Departure)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Traces through people and ideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in the idea of tracing certain people and ideas through Wikipedia and other related links.<br>It frequently happens that someone comes to my attention and I have a sudden curiosity to know more about them.<br>When consulting Wikipedia and various links I invariably encounter other people, in some way connected to the initial person who consequently I also find interesting and thereby reference them as well. And so it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wondered if I could create chains of references, perhaps that I could reference again, for my own amusement, originally using Latex but now I feel Weblinking logically better, Simply because it is mostly the primary source of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the trail of inquiries takes place on the Web, through the browser history, I realized I had the trail already documented and time-stamped. It is simply a matter of cutting and pasting. However, I would like to interpolate some kind of graphic that defines the nature of the transition between one link and the following link. I&#8217;ll think about that but for the moment it is just a list of oldest to newest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">List of Interesting People<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/?page_id=1721\" data-type=\"page\">PoD-1 Edmund Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/?page_id=1721\" data-type=\"page\">PoD-<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/pod-points-of-departure\/dune-trail\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1762\">2 DUNE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/from-china-heritage-net\" data-type=\"URL\">PoD-3 From China Heritage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traces through people and ideas I&#8217;m interested in the idea of tracing certain people and ideas through Wikipedia and other related links.It frequently happens that someone comes to my attention and I have a sudden curiosity to know more about them.When consulting Wikipedia and various links I invariably encounter other people, in some way connected to the initial person who consequently I also find interesting and thereby reference them as well. And so it goes. I wondered if I could create chains of references, perhaps that I could reference again, for my own amusement, originally using Latex but now I feel Weblinking logically better, Simply because it is mostly the primary source of information. As the trail of inquiries takes place on the Web, through the browser history, I realized I had the trail already documented and time-stamped. It is simply a matter of cutting and pasting. However, I would like to interpolate some kind of graphic that defines the nature of the transition between one link and the following link. I&#8217;ll think about that but for the moment it is just a list of oldest to newest. List of Interesting People PoD-1 Edmund Wilson PoD-2 DUNE PoD-3 From China Heritage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1720","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1720\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alistairriddell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}