{"id":80,"date":"2010-05-06T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-05-06T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T13:16:54","slug":"the-natural-order-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/the-natural-order-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natural Order of things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This quote from my favourite author seems to typify most people&#8217;s interactions with technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anything that is in the world when you&#8217;re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.<\/p>\n<p>Anything that&#8217;s invented between when you&#8217;re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. <\/p>\n<p>Anything invented after you&#8217;re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8211; Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote from my favourite author seems to typify most people&#8217;s interactions with technology. Anything that is in the world when you&#8217;re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that&#8217;s invented between when you&#8217;re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wIKv-1i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbristow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}