{"id":99,"date":"2011-08-19T14:19:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/wordpress-camp\/pschmid1\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:54:20","slug":"essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?page_id=99","title":{"rendered":"Online Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since WordPress is such an immense pain to use and revise or reorder, my main page for publishing my online essays is now Academia.edu: \u00a0see https:\/\/swarthmore.academia.edu\/PeterSchmidt<\/a><\/p>\n

Some essays are still posted here. \u00a0See my WordPress blog’s\u00a0drop-down menu, including Selected Essays\u00a0and (for more academic essays) this blog’s Publications menu.<\/p>\n

For older essays designed in the time of a much\u00a0older\u00a0Web, see links below.<\/p>\n

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Peter Schmidt \/ Older Web Essays<\/a>\u00a0includes the following pieces:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Gamer<\/a><\/span>: On Video and Computer Games<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0On Ruins and Prophecy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ankh, Snail, Blood, and Knot:\u00a0A Virtual Tour of Nefertari\u2019s Tomb in Egypt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Instant Relatives<\/a>“:\u00a0<\/span>Finding Family Photos in Second-Hand Stores<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Frank Sinatra’s Hair<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0On Xena: Warrior Princess, and Hercules<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Undead Elvis<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(for the 20th anniversary of his passing)<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0On Seshat, Egyptian Goddess of Archives<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Rolywholyover Comes to Philadelphia: A Virtual for John Cage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Word Up:<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>On Discovering Civilizations in Outer Space (and Them Discovering Us)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Since WordPress is such an immense pain to use and revise or reorder, my main page for publishing my online essays is now Academia.edu: \u00a0see https:\/\/swarthmore.academia.edu\/PeterSchmidt Some essays are still posted here. \u00a0See my WordPress blog’s\u00a0drop-down menu, including Selected Essays\u00a0and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}