{"id":1151,"date":"2009-09-22T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2009\/09\/22\/10-best-things-well-say-to-our-grandkids\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:57:01","slug":"10-best-things-well-say-to-our-grandkids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/22\/10-best-things-well-say-to-our-grandkids\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Things We&#8217;ll Say to Our Grandkids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/culturereviews\/magazine\/17-10\/st_best\" target=\"_blank\">Streeter Seidell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_TXdnLKoYLHQ\/SrkOXjluX4I\/AAAAAAAAABw\/PFFS6dOEXzY\/s800\/st_best_f.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Illustration: Nishant Choksi <\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Televised contests gave cash prizes to whoever could store the most data in their head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Well, the screens were bigger, but they only showed the movies at certain times of day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> We all had one, but nobody actually used it. Come to think of it, I bet my LinkedIn profile is still out there on the Web somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_TXdnLKoYLHQ\/SrkOYHC5LcI\/AAAAAAAAAB4\/sWSstHPX4qk\/s800\/st_best_chinese.jpg\" \/>*<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> You used to keep files right on your computer, and you had to go back to that same computer to access them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> Is that the new iPhone 27G? Got multitasking yet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.<\/strong> I just can&#8217;t get used to this darn vat-grown steak. Texture ain&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Translation:<\/em> &quot;English used to be the dominant language. Crazy, huh?&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Streeter Seidell Illustration: Nishant Choksi 1. Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters. 2. There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down. 3. Televised contests gave cash prizes to whoever could store the most data in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}