{"id":792,"date":"2005-09-01T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/think-about-it-if-you-still-can\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T17:48:58","slug":"think-about-it-if-you-still-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/think-about-it-if-you-still-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Think About It, If You Still Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Killer App?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/08\/29\/AR2005082901444.html\">PowerPoint: Killer App?<\/a> By Ruth Marcus<\/p>\n<p>The most disturbing development in the world of PowerPoint is its migration to the schools &#8212; like sex and drugs, at earlier and earlier ages. Now we have second-graders being tutored in PowerPoint. No matter that students who compose at the keyboard already spend more energy perfecting their fonts than polishing their sentences &#8212; PowerPoint dispenses with the need to write any sentences at all. <strong>Perhaps the politicians who are so worked up about the ill effects of violent video games should turn their attention to PowerPoint instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowerPoint: Killer App? By Ruth Marcus The most disturbing development in the world of PowerPoint is its migration to the schools &#8212; like sex and drugs, at earlier and earlier ages. Now we have second-graders being tutored in PowerPoint. No matter that students who compose at the keyboard already spend more energy perfecting their fonts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/think-about-it-if-you-still-can\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Think About It, If You Still Can<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}