{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-13 22:38:05 UTC","author_name":"Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/ceruleanspark","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/2983900","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/29796\" class=\"url\" title=\"griffin\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">vcgriffin<\/span><\/a><\/span> Back in the day, as I was saying to Logan at the last meetup, it <i>\/did\/<\/i> have a much stronger spiritual\/lifestyle side to it, and it was actually very interesting, but since &quot;expending effort&quot; and &quot;any sort of retrospection&quot; have been aggressively marginalized by modern culture, so has that aspect of the fandom"}