{"id":8481,"date":"2010-05-10T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2010-05-10T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:27:43","slug":"the-leader-of-the-free-world-doesnt-know-how-to-use-an-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-leader-of-the-free-world-doesnt-know-how-to-use-an-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"The leader of the free world doesn\u2019t know how to use an iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fact that he appears to be proud of. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1276738\/Barack-Obama-attacks-iPods-high-tech-gadgets.html?ITO=1490\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations &#8211; none of which I know how to work &#8211; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He also laid into the Internet gossip sites for spreading rumour around the world, even if it was false.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;With so many voices clamouring for attention on blogs, on cable, on talk radio, it can be difficult, at times, to sift through it all; to know what to believe, to figure out who&#8217;s telling the truth and who&#8217;s not,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; even some of the craziest claims can quickly gain traction. I&#8217;ve had some experience of that myself.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And one of those crazy claims is that Obama doesn\u2019t know how to use &#8211; how can I put it &#8211; easy to use devices designed for techno-dummies. Let\u2019s hope no-one has told him where the nuclear button is kept: he might mistake it for a coffee maker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fact that he appears to be proud of. From here: &#8216;With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations &#8211; none of which I know how to work &#8211; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-leader-of-the-free-world-doesnt-know-how-to-use-an-ipod\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2215,2227],"class_list":["post-8481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-obama","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}