{"id":352,"date":"2006-10-26T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/26\/fun-with-hardware\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T18:40:37","slug":"fun-with-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/26\/fun-with-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am ready to kill my printer<br \/>\n\u2014 dice it, slice it, smash it, massacre!<br \/>\nall the while gnashing and smashing and trashing!<\/p>\n<p>Listen:<br \/>\nwhen  the lady at the print shop tells you<br \/>\nthey send out business cards print jobs<br \/>\nand you say <em><br \/>\nthat&#8217;s okay I can do it on my laser printer at home<br \/>\n<\/em>IMHO*, I suggest that soon you will be willing to<br \/>\nattempt to reverse the course of planetary rotation<br \/>\nrather than try to defy the gods of technology<br \/>\nin that hubristic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>All the royalty Shakespeare wrote about<br \/>\nincluding Hamlet, Lear and Coriolanis<br \/>\ncould not have faced the torn pages,<br \/>\nthe crashed software, the blurred print<br \/>\nthe frozen screens, the lost data . . . .<\/p>\n<p>O holy print lady at the print shop<br \/>\nO sage beyond peer (certainly beyond me)<br \/>\nI salute your sacred wisdom and hereby vow<br \/>\nNot to print business cards on my computer for<br \/>\nevermore.<\/p>\n<p>*IMHO: In miserabile hubristiosis opera \u2014 trans: If the guy singing had worse breath, she would have died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am ready to kill my printer \u2014 dice it, slice it, smash it, massacre! all the while gnashing and smashing and trashing! Listen: when the lady at the print shop tells you they send out business cards print jobs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/26\/fun-with-hardware\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}