{"id":1675,"date":"2010-12-14T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?page_id=1675"},"modified":"2018-10-27T23:53:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T03:53:51","slug":"10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?page_id=1675","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April of 2001, I launched a site called &#8220;Dirty Freaks.&#8221; Despite the pornographic (and, so, financial) promise of the name, the site was dedicated to ranting and satire. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=1669\" target=\"_blank\">original plan<\/a> was to have a series of themed articles and, in a sort of backhanded way, &#8220;practice writing.&#8221;  The web designer of Dirty Freaks was co-writing a movie script with me that eventually inspired my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=367\" target=\"_blank\">Lousy Novel<\/a>, so we wanted to get into the habit of writing and, by extension, create a forum for writers. The very early, very clumsy precursor of the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/forums\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">GS forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a bit has happened since then. Old friends have been lost, new friends have been found. There&#8217;s been drama, love, pain, suffering, and renewal. We&#8217;ve watched the core group of folks evolve either in the forums or on the front page.  It&#8217;s been a wild ride. And now we&#8217;re all old, I guess. Or something. I don&#8217;t know. But there&#8217;s 15 years of writing archived on this site, so go entertain yourself! And, as always, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?page_id=175\" target=\"_blank\">your support is appreciated.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April of 2001, I launched a site called &#8220;Dirty Freaks.&#8221; Despite the pornographic (and, so, financial) promise of the name, the site was dedicated to ranting and satire. The original plan was to have a series of themed articles &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?page_id=1675\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}