{"id":2925,"date":"2014-01-18T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2014-01-18T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:16:53","slug":"soldiering-on-at-sea-01162014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"Soldiering On \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [01\/16\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Tech-Retro-Pin-Ups-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2926\" alt=\"High-Tech-Retro-Pin-Ups-3\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Tech-Retro-Pin-Ups-3.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Tech-Retro-Pin-Ups-3.jpg 610w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Tech-Retro-Pin-Ups-3-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a>Despite the fact that I\u2019m good with technology and the guests keep complimenting me on my patience with working them through all this \u2013 I\u2019m discovering more and more that I don\u2019t <i>like<\/i> technology. Except adventure computer games and candy crush\u2026neither of which I consider essential to my mental and physical well-being.<\/p>\n<p>These days I would be just as happy to go back to the days of postcards, stamps and letters tied with ribbon and tucked in the attic to be found by non-existent grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The worst that could happen to a letter is it got lost in the post \u2013 they never \u2018broke\u2019 per say. Just did the real world equivalent of getting \u2018stuck in the clacks\u2019 (for the Terry Prachett fans among my readers).<\/p>\n<p>These days some computer chip goes down somewhere and wham, you\u2019re totally without connection to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh* it\u2019s a problem\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Give me an art museum, or a cathedral, or a book with good description any day. Or better yet, someone pour me a glass of really good Italian red\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Or failing all that\u2026maybe just get me a flak jacket with the words \u201cDon\u2019t mess with the Librarian\u201d (Jasper Fforde reference there, and if you haven\u2019t read those books you really should) blazed across the back \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that I\u2019m good with technology and the guests keep complimenting me on my patience with working them through all this \u2013 I\u2019m discovering more and more that I don\u2019t like technology. Except adventure computer games and candy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-world-voyage-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-Lb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}