{"id":33272,"date":"2018-11-05T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33272"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:43:02","slug":"ahh-thank-goodness-for-this-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33272","title":{"rendered":"Ahh, thank goodness for this technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n

I am about to provide you with more evidence that I have arrived — finally!<\/em> — into the 21st century, that I have joined the techno-communications generation.<\/p>\n

I called the Collin County clerk’s office this morning. I told a nice lady on the other end of the line I am a “brand new resident of Collin County.” I said I needed the address of the nearest voting center so I can vote Tuesday in the midterm election.<\/p>\n

She asked for my address. Then she told me it’s at Puster Elementary School.<\/p>\n

“Do you need the address, or do you want me to give you directions on how to get there?” she asked.<\/p>\n

I chuckled. “Oh, no,” I told her. “I have this fancy phone that shows me how to get to anywhere I need to go. I just punch in the name of the school and it guides me there,” I said.<\/p>\n

She responded with a chuckle of her own, “Aren’t those phones just great?”<\/p>\n

Yes. They are, indeed.<\/p>\n

Gosh, I hope I didn’t sound smug.<\/p>\n\n

Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am about to provide you with more evidence that I have arrived — finally! — into the 21st century, that I have joined the techno-communications generation. I called the Collin County clerk’s office this morning. I told a nice lady on the other end of the line I am a “brand new resident of … Continue reading Ahh, thank goodness for this technology<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7490,1063,7576],"class_list":["post-33272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-2018-election","tag-collin-county","tag-midterm-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33273,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33272\/revisions\/33273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}