{"id":262754,"date":"2010-02-02T00:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/01\/amen-brotha\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T00:39:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:39:41","slug":"amen-brotha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/262754","title":{"rendered":"Amen, Brotha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>I&#8217;m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they&#8217;re thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges.<\/p>\n<p>With the iPhone OS as incarnated in the iPad, Apple proposes to do something about this, and I mean <em>really do something about it<\/em> instead of just talking about doing something about it, and the world is going mental.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/speirs.org\/blog\/2010\/1\/29\/future-shock.html\">speirs.org<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I love this.  I totally agree that a computing device doesn&#8217;t have to have every high-tech bell and whistle in order to do &#8220;real work&#8221;.  Just read the rest of the article linked above; Fraser Speirs wrote a great feisty post.  Go now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- No posting client link spam, please. --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/jezlyn.wordpress.com\/1008\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=jezlyn.wordpress.com&#038;blog=113624&#038;post=1008&#038;subd=jezlyn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they&#8217;re thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges. With the iPhone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}