{"id":6233,"date":"2023-05-01T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:32:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:32:21","slug":"op-ed-telegraphs-are-ruining-our-childrens-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/op-ed-telegraphs-are-ruining-our-childrens-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Telegraphs are Ruining Our Children&#8217;s Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back when I was a kid, we went outside and played. We ate Grandma\u2019s lead paint. We sprayed radium pesticides at each other. We dared one another to get gored by bison. We lived in the moment. Now, all these young children know how to do is tap away on their telegraphs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kids today have it too easy. They don\u2019t have the character-building experiences of receiving a loved one\u2019s letter, dated several months ago, describing their failing health. Apparently, virtues like \u201cpatience\u201d and \u201cdelayed gratification\u201d are no longer important. I shudder to think of who these children will grow up to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It gets worse. Children are spending weeks learning Morse code instead of working in the factories. They are being bombarded with subliminal messaging \u2014 why do they need to STOP all the time? I, for one, blame Big Telegraph, with their monopolistic power. What\u2019s next? Are they gonna get rid of horses?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was a kid, we went outside and played. We ate Grandma\u2019s lead paint. We sprayed radium pesticides at each other. We lived in the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}