{"id":490523,"date":"2010-03-30T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"9059 at http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:14:07","slug":"we-call-them-crippled-because-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490523","title":{"rendered":"We call them crippled because they are!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/articleimage\/Phil%20Nickinson\/2010\/03\/Cat%20Cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/sites\/androidcentral.com\/files\/articleimage\/Phil%20Nickinson\/2010\/03\/thumb_450_Cat%20Cast.jpg\" alt=\"Cat in a cast\" class=\"lightbox2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/stop-calling-phones-crippled-just-because-they-dont-do-what-you-want\">our fearless leader&#8217;s momentary lapse of reason<\/a> regarding the AT&amp;T&nbsp;Backflip and its inability to load unsigned apps:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Main Entry: <strong><sup>3<\/sup>cripple<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Function:  <em>transitive verb<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Inflected Form(s): <strong>crip&middot;pled<\/strong>; <strong>crip&middot;pling<\/strong> <span>\\-p(\u0259-)li\u014b\\<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Date: 14th century<\/div>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <strong>:<\/strong> to deprive of the use of a limb and especially a <a  style=\"border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/crippled#\">leg<\/a> <span>&lt;the accident left him <em>crippled<\/em>&gt;<\/span><br \/> <strong>2<\/strong> <strong>:<\/strong> to deprive of capability for service or of strength, efficiency, or wholeness <span>&lt;an economy <em>crippled<\/em> by inflation&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was taken from Merriam-Webster&#8217;s online dictionary (<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/crippled\">http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.<wbr><\/wbr>com\/dictionary\/crippled<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As much as we like referring to Android personified (I mean, who doesn&#8217;t love that little green guy), we should digress and use the 2nd referenced definition. Let&#8217;s elaborate after the break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/we-call-them-crippled-because-they-are\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?a=VSyuAdCrrYg:xPFzDarQeeQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?a=VSyuAdCrrYg:xPFzDarQeeQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?i=VSyuAdCrrYg:xPFzDarQeeQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?a=VSyuAdCrrYg:xPFzDarQeeQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidcentral?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/androidcentral\/~4\/VSyuAdCrrYg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In response to our fearless leader&#8217;s momentary lapse of reason regarding the AT&amp;T&nbsp;Backflip and its inability to load unsigned apps: &nbsp; Main Entry: 3cripple Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): crip&middot;pled; crip&middot;pling \\-p(\u0259-)li\u014b\\ Date: 14th century 1 : to deprive of the use of a limb and especially a leg &lt;the accident left him crippled&gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490523","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}