{"id":424,"date":"2016-12-26T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/?p=424"},"modified":"2016-12-26T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T04:02:45","slug":"computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2016\/12\/26\/computers\/","title":{"rendered":"computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a computer guy for a long time. I actually took a computer class in my first quarter in college in 1971. I was part of a group of stagehands who pooled money to buy a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1982. I always had the ability to understand how to relate to the machine in such a way as to get productive work out of it. When other people had trouble, I was often the guy who was brought in to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>So, a couple of minutes ago, I was typing up a post when all the text disappeared. So many times I&#8217;ve been on the troubleshooting side and I ask, &#8216;What did you do?&#8217; and the answer was. &#8216;I don&#8217;t know.&#8217; I always was a little incredulous. How could you not know what you just did?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I just found a key combination that erased 10 minutes of typing and I have no idea what it was. I couldn&#8217;t find any key combination that brought it back so I guess it wasn&#8217;t too important!<\/p>\n<p>(If it wasn&#8217;t a key combination then my mental powers are greater than I thought. I wasn&#8217;t really happy with what I was writing. Now I&#8217;ve written this instead.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a computer guy for a long time. I actually took a computer class in my first quarter in college in 1971. I was part of a group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[170,77],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuts-and-bolts","tag-computer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}