{"id":128363,"date":"2015-10-19T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/state-of-the-google-collections.html"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:18:09","slug":"state-of-the-google-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/state-of-the-google-collections.html","title":{"rendered":"State of the Google+ Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follower counts for my account&#39;s Collections:<\/p>\n<p>1,444 &#8212; My Google+ Account (in general)<br \/>6,728 &#8212; &quot;Geekery &amp; Nerditude&quot; Collection<br \/>1,548 &#8212; &quot;Serious Stuff&quot; Collection<br \/>1,476 &#8212; &quot;Family &amp; Personal Potpourri&quot; Collection<\/p>\n<p>Not quite sure what that means, except I think the Google+ Collection mechanism is working as intended.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and that people vastly prefer squeeful <i>Star Wars<\/i> videos to discussions of my kitchen remodel or screeds about the GOP. Which, frankly, I can fully understand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6207586359765100561\/6207586367206872818'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-OEKI1WSYUAA\/ViXG6WnsVvI\/AAAAAAADap0\/L62oDFbDuFU\/Google-Collections%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Rdg4UiXw8Hf'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follower counts for my account&#39;s Collections: 1,444 &#8212; My Google+ Account (in general)6,728 &#8212; &quot;Geekery &amp; Nerditude&quot; Collection1,548 &#8212; &quot;Serious Stuff&quot; Collection1,476 &#8212; &quot;Family &amp; Personal Potpourri&quot; Collection Not quite sure what that means, except I think the Google+ Collection mechanism is working as intended. Oh, and that people vastly prefer squeeful Star Wars videos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/state-of-the-google-collections.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State of the Google+ Collections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Google-Collections5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28931,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/some-great-marvel-tpb-collections.html","url_meta":{"origin":128363,"position":0},"title":"Some great Marvel TPB collections","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Aug-12 6:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't agree with all the cases, but you could do far worse if you were looking for\u00a0some relatively contemporary Marvel collections to pick up than to work off of this list. 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