{"id":212,"date":"2008-03-01T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-02-15T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:55:37","slug":"hypertext-hypertextopia-tying-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/03\/hypertext-hypertextopia-tying-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERTEXT: Hypertextopia &#8211; Tying Knots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>ried to get an alternate path thing going here, mainly because I had seen a similar go around in one of the other published pieces and wondered how it works.\u00a0 Well, for me, it doesn&#8217;t; not if I want all the information to be read.\u00a0 It appears that a reader could slip through the loops and move onward without reading both sides of this particular knot of information.\u00a0 Now that would be fine too; as long as the information is not vital to the story and in this form of hypertext, for me, for this story, it is.\u00a0 Now I can untie this particular knot and thread it out in linear structure, and I can put some &#8221;enhancement&#8221; information in a knot such as this, but&#8230;why? While that my be rewarding the picky reader, wouldn&#8217;t it be penalizing the more relaxed, click onward reader for missing that one chance? (referenced &#8216;knot&#8217; is in lower left&#8211;right by my smiling face which I am too lazy to put into Photoshop to crop out).<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=377,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/smgct.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/03\/01\/screencapture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-645\" title=\"030108h\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/030108h.jpg\" alt=\"030108h\" width=\"480\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/030108h.jpg 480w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/030108h-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>ried to get an alternate path thing going here, mainly because I had seen a similar go around in one of the other published pieces and wondered how it works.\u00a0 Well, for me, it doesn&#8217;t; not if I want all the information to be read.\u00a0 It appears that a reader could slip through the loops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext","tag-hypertextopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}