{"id":3836,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3836"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:35","slug":"modern-technology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/modern-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Modern Technology<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s rather old and somewhat large<br \/>\nAnd occupies at least a room<br \/>\nIt lets me think that I&#8217;m in charge<br \/>\nWhile plotting doom<\/p>\n<p>When Babbage thought about design<br \/>\nHe thoughtfully used lots of brass<br \/>\nAnd so I did the same with mine<br \/>\nIt gives it class<\/p>\n<p>Each morning when the birds awake<br \/>\nI rise to fill the bins with coal<br \/>\nTo start too late&#8217;s a big mistake<br \/>\nIf speed&#8217;s your goal<\/p>\n<p>As soon as water&#8217;s on the boil<br \/>\nI start to key the programme in<br \/>\nI have to spray a lot of oil<br \/>\nTo cut the din<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got three analytic frames<br \/>\nThey calculate at lightning speed<br \/>\nBut they&#8217;re not very good for games<br \/>\nIf that&#8217;s your need<\/p>\n<p>Computers ought to run on steam<br \/>\nAnd clank and bang the answers out<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t quite hear against its scream<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll have to shout!!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe prompt was &#8220;describe your computer&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Technology by cricketjeff on May 10, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved It&#8217;s rather old and somewhat large And occupies at least a room It lets me think that I&#8217;m in charge While plotting doom When Babbage thought about design He thoughtfully used lots of brass And so I did the same with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3836","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7672,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3836\/revisions\/7672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}