{"id":10834,"date":"2013-06-10T21:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10834"},"modified":"2013-06-10T21:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T02:19:48","slug":"pointless-and-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10834","title":{"rendered":"Pointless and Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things that are pointless, and some that are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something that&#8217;s both:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y9RKXO1rr7g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Pointless<\/b>: Because there&#8217;s absolutely no practical point in having your food delivered by quadrocopter if your waitress has to stand there and guide the Quadrocopter to your table using an iPad.<\/p>\n<p><b>Awesome<\/b>: Because they&#8217;re <i>still flying food to your table in a quadrocopter<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>I may have to eat there when I&#8217;m in London for Worldcon next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things that are pointless, and some that are awesome. Here&#8217;s something that&#8217;s both: Pointless: Because there&#8217;s absolutely no practical point in having your food delivered by quadrocopter if your waitress has to stand there and guide the Quadrocopter to your table using an iPad. Awesome: Because they&#8217;re still flying food to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,206],"tags":[1972,1626,1625,1986,1974],"class_list":["post-10834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-technology","tag-food","tag-london","tag-quadrocopter","tag-technology","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10834"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10834\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}