{"id":423,"date":"2007-09-23T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/23\/know-your-limits\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T16:06:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T21:06:15","slug":"know-your-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/23\/know-your-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/208\/522143955_756f8b37d8_m.jpg\" height=\"200\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 200px\" \/>Today a couple of the neighbor kids were playing in our house.\u00a0 One of them asked to use a computer to feed his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/12\/webkinz\/\">Webkinz<\/a>.\u00a0 This particular little guy just started kindergarten.\u00a0 I was interested in seeing what he could do on his own.<\/p>\n<p>I pointed him to our second grader&#8217;s computer.\u00a0 He double-clicked &#8220;e&#8221; on the desktop.\u00a0 The computer went to some Barbie page.\u00a0 Without flinching, he opened the favorites and\u00a0found the Webkinz icon in the listing.\u00a0 A few seconds later he was logged in with his username and password.<\/p>\n<p>He fed his &#8220;pet&#8221; and asked if it was ok\u00a0to play his favorite Webkinz game.\u00a0 I asked him what his favorite game was.\u00a0 He pointed to the link at the bottom of the page.\u00a0 I asked him the name of the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Without missing a beat he looked at me and said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t read.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a couple of the neighbor kids were playing in our house.\u00a0 One of them asked to use a computer to feed his Webkinz.\u00a0 This particular little guy just started kindergarten.\u00a0 I was interested in seeing what he could do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/09\/23\/know-your-limits\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}