{"id":44850,"date":"2020-10-21T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T12:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44850"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T12:41:36","slug":"oh-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44850","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the Internet!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I am receiving a real-time lesson on how dependent I have become to the Internet.<\/p>\n

Our RV campsite is in the middle of the Davis Mountains of Far West Texas. Cell phone reception is gone, pfftt<\/em> … nothing, man! That doesn’t bother me so much.<\/p>\n

What drives me batty is my (lack of ) Internet connection. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, which runs the magnificent state park where we are holed up, has Wi-Fi service, but it’s lousy. I cannot sign onto the TP&W site. I can, however, sign onto Word Press, which is the platform that contains this entry. When I am finished I will post it to Word Press, but not onto the other social media platforms I use to distribute this blog.<\/p>\n

Therefore, this entry will go to relatively few folks who normally would read these words.<\/p>\n

I am expressing a frustration.<\/p>\n

We’re able to go into town, where the cell service is a zillion times better. Thus, so is the Internet service.<\/p>\n

I’ll just have to wait until our next foray into Fort Davis to reconnect with what we used to refer to in Vietnam as “The World.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bear with me. Please.<\/p>\n\n

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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I am receiving a real-time lesson on how dependent I have become to the Internet. Our RV campsite is in the middle of the Davis Mountains of Far West Texas. Cell phone reception is gone, pfftt … nothing, man! That doesn’t bother me so much. What drives me batty is … Continue reading Oh, the Internet!<\/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":[2293,3920,5509,6813],"class_list":["post-44850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-internet","tag-retirement","tag-rv-travel","tag-word-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850","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=44850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44853,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44850\/revisions\/44853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}