{"id":10486,"date":"2006-09-19T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/19\/classmates-search-enlightment\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T13:00:43","slug":"classmates-search-enlightment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/19\/classmates-search-enlightment\/","title":{"rendered":"Classmates search enlightment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Once in a while I get nostalgic and search for my classmates online.  I think by now I&#8217;ve done a hundred searches or maybe more.  But none of them came up.  (Although some of them looked for me and easily found yours truly.)<\/p>\n<p>Every time I&#8217;ve looked for them, and haven&#8217;t found anyone, I felt puzzled once again.  Why and how is that even possible?  It can&#8217;t be that they are offline.  Not all of them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today, after a really long time (as usual) I realized once simple fact.  About 50% of my efforts were totally useless.  That is, all searches for my female classmates, using their maiden surnames were bound to fail.  Because by now all of them (or most of them) should be married, and with another surname.  Oops.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I should focus more on my male classmates next time I look&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Once in a while I get nostalgic and search for my classmates online. I think by now I&#8217;ve done a hundred searches or maybe more. But none of them came up. (Although some of them looked for me and easily found yours truly.) Every time I&#8217;ve looked for them, and haven&#8217;t found anyone, I felt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/19\/classmates-search-enlightment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Classmates search enlightment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15749,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/20\/linkedin-classmates\/","url_meta":{"origin":10486,"position":0},"title":"LinkedIn Classmates","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"LinkedIn introduced the new service - LinkedIn Classmates. 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