{"id":447,"date":"2006-08-01T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=447"},"modified":"2006-08-01T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T15:49:01","slug":"writerly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/08\/01\/writerly\/","title":{"rendered":"Writerly"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went and signed up<\/a> for a beta test of the new online word processing application from Google.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t played with it yet, but it looks great.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m eager to try creating a document and sending the text to this blog, which is one of the cool features you get with an online word processor.\u00c2\u00a0 And the interface is so much cleaner than Word (not surprisingly).<\/p>\n

I wonder how Ava is going to express herself by the time she’s ready to head off to high school.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s 11 years from now.\u00c2\u00a0 In 1993 I was browsing the nascent WWW using Mosaic and my old Mac SE.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s only 13 years later, and it’s difficult to imagine my present life without the Internet.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems likely, with the way things are going, that Ava won’t be using computers at all, at least not computers as we know them today (I imagine her and a friend stumbling across my iBook in the attic one cool fall day and marvelling over the relic, daring each other to turn it on).\u00c2\u00a0 I’m already preparing myself for the day she comes through the door and knows more than I do; hopefully I have some time to get ready for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went and signed up for a beta test of the new online word processing application from Google.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t played with it yet, but it looks great.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m eager to try creating a document and sending the text to this blog, which is one of the cool features you get with an online word […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-computer","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-writerly","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}