{"id":564,"date":"2020-11-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/?p=564"},"modified":"2020-11-01T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:06:51","slug":"welcome-to-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/2020\/11\/01\/welcome-to-the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">I started Open the Echo Chamber in July of 2010, just before I headed off to USAID on an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. For a few years, this was a very active site where I offered commentary on all things development, environment, and academia. But, as Bill Easterly once said, blogs are hungry mouths, and around 2013-14 I just couldn&#8217;t keep it up anymore. There have been some posts since then, but they are few and far between.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Then, while updating my homepage in October 2020, I apparently deleted the site. I have no idea how, but it was gone. I had a backup from 2011, and an index file that I was able to reinstall. Using the Internet Wayback Machine, I then grabbed all the posts that were not in the backup and had any sort of intellectual content (some posts were very time-specific and without enduring value) and copy\/pasted them here. Some of the links in them are likely broken or head to the Wayback Machine. I might clean them up. I probably won&#8217;t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is now a somewhat messy archive of Open The Echo Chamber. I doubt I will post new material here again. Some folks find the old posts interesting and worthwhile, given people keep visiting the site, so I suppose an archive is worthwhile. There are around 300 posts here &#8211; it was a lot of work, even if it didn&#8217;t feel like that much work. I suppose I want to preserve that as well. I&#8217;m not done with the work, nor am I done writing &#8211; I just do it in other places and in other ways. Some of it is even as much fun as this was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started Open the Echo Chamber in July of 2010, just before I headed off to USAID on an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. For a few years, this was a very active site where I offered commentary on all things development, environment, and academia. But, as Bill Easterly once said, blogs are hungry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}