{"id":63,"date":"2008-11-25T20:28:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2017-05-14T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T13:46:14","slug":"link-ugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/link-ugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Link: UGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was an early member of <acronym title=\"Underground Scene\">UGS<\/acronym>, having user number 37 until a database cockup a while back (Thanks KJ!).<\/p>\n<p>It originally started as a board about hip hop, then a well timed explosion of the Dundee music scene a number of years ago co-ordinated with the death of the Kerosene board due to Colin deciding he was too old to be a DJ meant it had a period of rapid growth and then a decline when social network sites started taking off and filled the space sites like <acronym title=\"Underground Scene\">UGS<\/acronym> were taking advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>It now seems to be diversifying a lot after being narrowly focussed on the Dundee rock scene for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I can heartily recommend it for random stuff, happenings in Dundee, crap films, good films and loads of bitter late 20 and early something ranters about the state of the world.<\/p>\n<h3>Linking<\/h3>\n<p>I am trying to write a short piece about why I am linking to a particular site and what it means to me rather than adding a plethora of random links from the blog. This means I have to actually think about my association with them and if I can&#8217;t write a short paragraph about why <strong>I<\/strong> am linking to them then I can&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> expect any readers to be interested in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was an early member of UGS, having user number 37 until a database cockup a while back (Thanks KJ!). It originally started as a board about hip hop, then a well timed explosion of the Dundee music scene a number of years ago co-ordinated with the death of the Kerosene board due to Colin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-link"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}