{"id":1415,"date":"2018-02-12T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:17:59","slug":"track-in-real-time-what-people-are-giving-up-for-lent-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2018\/02\/track-in-real-time-what-people-are-giving-up-for-lent-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Track in Real Time What People Are Giving Up for Lent in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/lent-tracker\/2018\">top 100 things people are giving up for Lent in 2018<\/a> on Twitter, continually updated until February 17, 2018. You can also use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/labs\/lent-tracker\/\">Historical Lent Tracker<\/a> to see trends since 2009, though 2018 is still in flux, so I wouldn\u2019t draw any conclusions about 2018 yet.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this post, with about 1,500 tweets analyzed, perennial favorites \u201csocial networking,\u201d \u201calcohol,\u201d and \u201ctwitter\u201d lead the list. Ash Wednesday coincides with Valentine&#8217;s Day this year (and thus Easter with April Fools&#8217; Day), so I expect relationship-related tweets to run higher than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the usual post-mortem on February 18, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the top 100 things people are giving up for Lent in 2018 on Twitter, continually updated until February 17, 2018. You can also use the Historical Lent Tracker to see trends since 2009, though 2018 is still in flux, so I wouldn\u2019t draw any conclusions about 2018 yet. As I write this post, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}