{"id":29158,"date":"2022-02-09T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=29158"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T15:04:54","slug":"the-computer-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/09\/the-computer-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"THE COMPUTER NUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve been<\/strong><\/span> into computers since the punch-card days. I can talk RAM and bytes, and byte me. But I won\u2019t\u00a0tech-talk here.<\/p>\n<p>I had a baby-boomer friend who cried whenever he had computer problems. He would call me in tears. He literally would be rolling on the floor in pain. I was his\u00a0fix-it guy. Sometimes it was just a matter of rebooting the computer.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s I had a cellphone as big as a shoebox. I golfed a lot and schlepped that James Bond cellphone. Blew people\u2019s minds. I worked for Motorola for a year. My kids call <em>me<\/em> for computer help.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Let me<\/strong><\/span> know if you have any problems.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>[fake profile]<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been into computers since the punch-card days. I can talk RAM and bytes, and byte me. But I won\u2019t\u00a0tech-talk here. I had a baby-boomer friend who cried whenever he had computer problems. He would call me in tears. He literally would be rolling on the floor in pain. I was his\u00a0fix-it guy. Sometimes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29158"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29614,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29158\/revisions\/29614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}