{"id":57391,"date":"2024-08-01T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57391"},"modified":"2024-08-01T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:40:00","slug":"21st-century-media-taking-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57391","title":{"rendered":"21st-century media taking a grip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Time for an admission that I am not too proud to acknowledge &#8230; which is that I am becoming quite comfortable with much of his new-fangled communications platforms available to us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texting&#8221; remains a thorn in my pie hole, as I still resist using the term in verb form when discussing it. I prefer to state that I &#8220;sent someone a text message.&#8221; But &#8230; that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p>I good while ago, I suspended my self-imposed six-word limit on text messages. Why? Because I acquired two devices, one of which is an I-pad, the other is an Apple MacBook desktop computer.<\/p>\n<p>Both devices contain text messaging apps and a keyboard that enables me to type out messages as I would type, say, an entry on High Plains Blogger.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, I do not like &#8220;conversing&#8221; via this platform. My intention in using it is to just inform someone of something, or to make a short, declarative statement about something.<\/p>\n<p>Conversing over the text message platform denies the opportunity to express sarcasm or say something with a needed nuance.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even with the down sides of &#8220;texting,&#8221; I am finding this communication platform to be of considerable value.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t ask me to talk about the weather.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for an admission that I am not too proud to acknowledge &#8230; which is that I am becoming quite comfortable with much of his new-fangled communications platforms available to us. &#8220;Texting&#8221; remains a thorn in my pie hole, as I still resist using the term in verb form when discussing it. I prefer to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">21st-century media taking a grip<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4300,4736],"class_list":["post-57391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-social-media","tag-texting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57391","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=57391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57392,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57391\/revisions\/57392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}