{"id":41,"date":"2008-04-21T07:02:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T11:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/04\/21\/how-do-you-read-once-upon-a-geek\/"},"modified":"2008-04-19T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T02:18:10","slug":"how-do-you-read-once-upon-a-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/21\/how-do-you-read-once-upon-a-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you read &#8220;Once Upon a Geek&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">If you are reading this, please take a second to visit my site (<a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/\" title=\"Once Upon a Geek\">http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/<\/a>) and take the poll in the right-hand sidebar.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just curious how everyone reads my blog.\u00a0 For example, do you read it on my site, or through LiveJournal, or through an RSS feeder, or some other way I&#8217;m not even thinking of.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Regardless, thanks for reading 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