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To my great excitement, they released to the <a href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/walk-the-world-virtual-trails/id6743502929?l=es-MX\">App Store</a> last week. 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Shouldn’t be unpopular.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/310654","date_published":"2018-02-02T19:22:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-02-02 19:22","date_timestamp":1517599326,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"310427","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Aleen\">@Aleen</a> As a followup, based on your experience, I cleaned up my RSS/Atom Feed code and found an error on my homepage that was causing problem with auto discovery. So... Thanks!</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/310427","date_published":"2018-02-02T16:59:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-02-02 16:59","date_timestamp":1517590764,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"310359","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Aleen\">@Aleen</a> Best part of a good community, I suppose, is helping each other find errors... <a href=\"https://engineeredeloquence.com/rss\">engineeredeloquence.com/rss</a> should work.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/310359","date_published":"2018-02-02T16:13:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-02-02 16:13","date_timestamp":1517588024,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"309493","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Aleen\">@Aleen</a> Let's try that again... I write at <a href=\"https://engineeredeloquence.com\">Engineered Eloquence</a></p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/309493","date_published":"2018-02-02T14:26:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-02-02 14:26","date_timestamp":1517581575,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"307670","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jayray\">@jayray</a> Case 1: Weatherline.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/307670","date_published":"2018-02-01T16:43:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-02-01 16:43","date_timestamp":1517503410,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"304461","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/chartier\">@chartier</a> $5 for a fully hosted Jekyll blog seems like a low cost when you have the option to host your own and push updates via an RSS or JSON feed, no?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/304461","date_published":"2018-01-30T22:21:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-30 22:21","date_timestamp":1517350874,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"296463","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jayray\">@jayray</a> well that was unexpected.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/296463","date_published":"2018-01-26T17:48:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-26 17:48","date_timestamp":1516988934,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"295463","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jayray\">@jayray</a> that being said, I did get it working.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/295463","date_published":"2018-01-26T04:17:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-26 04:17","date_timestamp":1516940224,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"295326","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jayray\">@jayray</a> I broke it...</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/295326","date_published":"2018-01-26T02:54:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-26 02:54","date_timestamp":1516935265,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"293003","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/ben\">@ben</a> Ha! I have definitely read some of my own work and noted it as “laughable”. #projecting</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jayray/293003","date_published":"2018-01-25T15:01:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Jay Ray","url":"https://engineeredeloquence.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fjayray%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"jayray"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2018-01-25 15:01","date_timestamp":1516892490,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}}]}