{"id":780,"date":"2008-01-14T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/14\/conversation-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T01:58:32","slug":"conversation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/14\/conversation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who else would sit here<br \/>\nnodding, pretending to care<br \/>\nabout whatever comes into my head?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like a straw for my juice, please, dear.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time<br \/>\nI could care less about robots<br \/>\nbut not any more;<br \/>\nnow they have entered every aspect of life:<br \/>\nthey help us dress,<br \/>\nthey clean up after us<br \/>\nthey tidy our things<br \/>\nthey guard our possessions<br \/>\nthey fetch anything we need<br \/>\nthey wheel us around<br \/>\nthey chauffeur us when we go out<br \/>\nthey do just about all manual labour<br \/>\nand they have the advantage that<br \/>\nthey never need a day off<br \/>\nnor time to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>They never talk back,<br \/>\nthey are attentive<br \/>\nbut never bored,<br \/>\nalways there when you need them<\/p>\n<p>I just wish they could be made<br \/>\nwith human facial expressions:<br \/>\nthat blank stare of yours is a bit unnerving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who else would sit here nodding, pretending to care about whatever comes into my head? I&#8217;d like a straw for my juice, please, dear. There was a time I could care less about robots but not any more; now they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/14\/conversation-2\/\">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":[45,25,52,3,24,56],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-dramatic-monologue","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-serial","category-technology","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}