{"id":354,"date":"2006-10-27T19:40:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/27\/horseless-chariot\/"},"modified":"2006-10-28T00:13:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T04:13:37","slug":"horseless-chariot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/27\/horseless-chariot\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseless chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computers are today&#8217;s version<br \/>\nof the horseless chariot:<\/p>\n<p>they are clunky, erratic, unreliable,<br \/>\ndifficult to communicate with,<br \/>\nfrustrating, complicated,<br \/>\ncrap<br \/>\nthat we have been hyped into<br \/>\nmaking central to our existence.<\/p>\n<p>This seems<br \/>\nfamiliar:<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t we used to do all right<br \/>\nwithout these suckers?<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, we&#8217;ve been sold<br \/>\non the future when it&#8217;s really the past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers are today&#8217;s version of the horseless chariot: they are clunky, erratic, unreliable, difficult to communicate with, frustrating, complicated, crap that we have been hyped into making central to our existence. This seems familiar: Didn&#8217;t we used to do all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/27\/horseless-chariot\/\">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":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-screeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}