{"id":143,"date":"2001-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=143"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"Poem For Computer Users Over 40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Poem For Computer Users Over 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A computer was something on TV<br \/>\nFrom a science fiction show of note<br \/>\nA window was something you hated to clean<br \/>\nAnd ram was the cousin of a goat.<\/p>\n<p>Meg was the name of my girlfriend<br \/>\nAnd gig was a job for the nights<br \/>\nNow they all mean different things<br \/>\nAnd that really mega bytes.<\/p>\n<p>An application was for employment<br \/>\nA program was a TV show<br \/>\nA cursor used profanity<br \/>\nA keyboard was a piano.<\/p>\n<p>Memory was something you lost with age<br \/>\nA CD was a bank account<br \/>\nAnd if you had a 3-inch floppy<br \/>\nYou hoped nobody found out.<\/p>\n<p>Compress was something you did to the garbage<br \/>\nNot something you did to a file<br \/>\nAnd if you unzipped anything in public<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d be in jail for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Log on was adding wood to the fire<br \/>\nHard drive was a long trip on the road<br \/>\nA mouse pad was where a mouse lived<br \/>\nAnd a backup happened to your commode.<\/p>\n<p>Cut you did with a pocketknife<br \/>\nPaste you did with glue<br \/>\nA web was a spider&#8217;s home<br \/>\nAnd a virus was the flu.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll stick to my pad and paper<br \/>\nAnd the memory in my head<br \/>\nI hear nobody&#8217;s been killed in a computer crash&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nBut when it happens they wish they were dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer was something on TV From a science fiction show of note A window was something you hated to clean And ram was the cousin of a goat. Meg was the name of my girlfriend And gig was a job for the nights Now they all mean different things And that really mega bytes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}