{"id":9118,"date":"2013-01-19T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T05:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2013-04-05T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:52:32","slug":"line-the-messaging-app-that-took-japan-by-storm-crosses-100m-users-and-enters-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9118","title":{"rendered":"Line, The Messaging App That Took Japan By Storm, Crosses 100M Users And Enters The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Line gives you free voice calls (like Skype or Facebook\u2019s new overhauled app). Then there\u2019s basic messaging, but Line is a bit goofier with sillier emojis and stickers. There are teddy bears juggling eggplants, bunnies with flames of anger in their eyes, and a shy balding man surrounded by little sparkles and flowers. (Yes.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/01\/18\/line-100m-users\/\">Line, The Messaging App That Took Japan By Storm, Crosses 100M Users And Enters The U.S. | TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese trends do sometime take off here in the US.\u00a0 100M is quite a large set of users.\u00a0 Facebook has about 1000M users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Line gives you free voice calls (like Skype or Facebook\u2019s new overhauled app). Then there\u2019s basic messaging, but Line is a bit goofier with sillier emojis and stickers. There are teddy bears juggling eggplants, bunnies with flames of anger in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078],"tags":[584,531,525],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","tag-appforthat","tag-instant-messaging","tag-market-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9756,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions\/9756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}