{"id":55,"date":"2004-11-22T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T22:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2004-11-22T15:49:18","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T22:49:18","slug":"coming-home-to-fix-technology-this-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Coming home to fix technology this Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a fun article on [MSNBC &#8211; The Tech-Support Generation]:http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6522314\/site\/newsweek\/ that talks about young Americans going home for Thanksgiving, and to fix their parents&#8217; computers.<\/p>\n<p>I think my family is reasonably adept at handling their own technological issues though.  I usually end up fixing stuff anyway, but they&#8217;re pretty capable of handling it on their own.  I&#8217;ve trained them well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I can&#8217;t say I blame them for asking me, when they do.  I&#8217;m a little over-educated when it comes to computing and technology, even compared to other PhD students, so I&#8217;m really *supposed* to know the answer.  Sometimes I don&#8217;t though.  There&#8217;s too much.  And a student&#8217;s budget doesn&#8217;t leave that much room to buy and play with the all the latest technogadgetry.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to come home. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a fun article on [MSNBC &#8211; The Tech-Support Generation]:http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6522314\/site\/newsweek\/ that talks about young Americans going home for Thanksgiving, and to fix their parents&#8217; computers. I think my family is reasonably adept at handling their own technological issues though. I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=55\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}