{"id":513,"date":"2010-08-17T17:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=513"},"modified":"2010-08-17T17:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:41:28","slug":"a-love-hate-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/08\/17\/a-love-hate-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"A love-hate relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a Luddite back in the &#8217;80s&#8211;totally attached to my IBM Selectric typewriter (which I had reluctantly adopted a few years earlier, when I let go of my Royal manual). Iresisted adopting a computer to do my word processing. But once it was installed and I tried it, I have to admit I loved it. It changed my work life&#8211;at least the writing part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, my lap top, which I use when I&#8217;m away from the station, appears to be dying. I say &#8220;appears&#8221; because the tech gurus here&#8211;Bill &#8220;the computer geek&#8221; Haenel and Radio &#8220;the hardware geek&#8221; Bob&#8211;cannot make my computer behave badly. You know what I mean. You&#8217;ve made an appointment with the dentist or doctor or car repair guy and the symptoms (body or car) mysteriously disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I will take the lap top home&#8211;one more time&#8211;to try to make it freeze up. Meanwhile, Bill is having me check out new models. I think there&#8217;s a bit of the Luddite left in me:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_514\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/08\/laptop.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-514\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-514\" title=\"laptop\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/08\/laptop-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/08\/laptop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/08\/laptop-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2010\/08\/laptop.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why won&#39;t my lap top show its symptoms?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tell me your computer horror story. Maybe I&#8217;ll go back to the Selectric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a Luddite back in the &#8217;80s&#8211;totally attached to my IBM Selectric typewriter (which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}