{"id":125,"date":"2010-07-24T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2010-07-24T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:52:18","slug":"the-web-means-the-end-of-forgetting-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/the-web-means-the-end-of-forgetting-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Web Means the End of Forgetting &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have read a number of articles recently about the fact that you can&#8217;t delete anything online once it has been published on the web, however hard you work at it. The following NYTimes article is only one amongts many:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/25\/magazine\/25privacy-t2.html?_r=2&amp;src=me&amp;ref=general\">The Web Means the End of Forgetting &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>. It often makes me think twice before posting anything here, or anywhere else. What if what I am about to put online will come back to me in years to come, and I&#8217;ll regret it. I am sure it has some consequences for new believers. They will always have reminders of their past lives coming back to haunt them.<\/p>\n<p>But I find comfort in these words in Hebrews 8:12 <em>For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,\u00c2\u00a0and I will remember their sins no more. <\/em>God knows all things about me, nothing escape His watching eye. But as a Christian I have the assurance that <em>as far as the east is from the west,<\/em> <em>so far does he remove our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:1).<\/em> <em> <\/em>But also: <em>Who shall bring any charge against God&#8217;s elect? It is God who justifies (Romans 8: 33). <\/em>The web may not forget, but God forgives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read a number of articles recently about the fact that you can&#8217;t delete anything online once it has been published on the web, however hard you work at it. The following NYTimes article is only one amongts many:\u00c2\u00a0The Web Means the End of Forgetting &#8211; NYTimes.com. It often makes me think twice before &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/the-web-means-the-end-of-forgetting-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Web Means the End of Forgetting &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}