{"id":1108,"date":"2013-08-12T15:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2013-09-17T00:48:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T04:48:06","slug":"about-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/about-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"About Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something beautiful about about:blank<\/strong>. Go ahead. Type it into your browser window. http:\/\/about:blank<\/strong>. What do you see there?<\/p>\n

\"About:Blank\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s right. Absolutely nothing. It’s a blank page. It’s a white canvas. There is nothing there at all. There are no promises there. There is nothing to live up to. There is nothing. Blank.<\/p>\n

In a world that wants to fill every possible space with ads and information, it’s nice to have some solace. It’s nice to have a little digital quiet space.<\/p>\n

I like about:blank<\/strong> because it is that quiet space. When I type http:\/\/about:blank into my browser, I know what will be returned is nothing. In all it’s peace.<\/p>\n

I often use about:blank as my start page. I don’t need to see anything when I open a new window. I don’t need to be overrun with information. I don’t need to have my thought train derailed by a social network or a story waiting for me, or a tempting ad from a start page.<\/p>\n

I need a little quiet time. I need a little quiet space. I need some time to think. To consider my next move. My next action is what’s important.<\/p>\n

Where am I am going?
\nWhat am I doing?
\nWhy did I open this window to begin with?<\/p>\n

Sometimes the answer is simply to close the window and walk away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is something beautiful about about:blank. Go ahead. Type it into your browser window. http:\/\/about:blank. What do you see there? That’s right. Absolutely nothing. It’s a blank page. It’s a white canvas. There is nothing there at all. There are no promises there. There is nothing to live up to. There is nothing. Blank. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"About:Blank is my favorite page on the internet.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[464,387,465],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-aboutblank","tag-quiet","tag-solace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}