{"id":3237,"date":"2010-04-15T21:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2010-04-17T00:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T04:12:01","slug":"incantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/15\/incantation\/","title":{"rendered":"Incantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, quick footed runner of the Roman gods:<br \/>\nI am asking you<br \/>\nto please, please, pretty please<br \/>\nfocus your attention over there,<br \/>\nsomewhere else, away<br \/>\nfrom the capricious sprites<br \/>\nthat gleefully manipulate<br \/>\neverything that<!--more--> happens<br \/>\ninside my CPU.<br \/>\nDo not cause them to freeze my display;<br \/>\nnor to thwart my cursor&#8217;s ability<br \/>\nto obey my wireless mouse;<br \/>\nnor to weaken the critter&#8217;s batteries;<br \/>\nnor to play douse the electron;<br \/>\nnor to play Tower of Babel;<br \/>\nin other words,<br \/>\ndo not screw with the mysteries<br \/>\nand magic that happens<br \/>\nin the mist of electrons<br \/>\nthat is my computer&#8217;s brain.<br \/>\nIf you do this for me,<br \/>\nI sincerely promise to memorize<br \/>\nyour slogan: &#8220;just fast is last.&#8221;<br \/>\nAmen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo day 15: has your computer been working properly lately? Think about Mercury, blub blub blub. (#1066) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/15\/incantation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,890,3,416],"tags":[903,461,57,902,133],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-computer-mysteries","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-i-t","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}