{"id":7416,"date":"2011-12-12T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2011-12-12T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T12:54:56","slug":"whats-going-to-disappear-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going to disappear next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when the Post Office announced the end of the telegram. There were outraged protests: suppose grandma dropped dead and the relatives did not have a telephone, how could one advise them of the funeral? Somehow we managed.<\/p>\n<p>Today the &#8220;Daily Express&#8221; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/posts\/view\/289387\/Why-it-s-farewell-to-the-age-of-the-video-call-boxes-and-travel-agent\">a whimsical piece<\/a> about other things that the advance of technology is making redundant. Personally, I haven&#8217;t used directory inquiries or a telephone box for at least a decade. And I was delighted to see the end of the video cassette recorder whose controls I never quite managed.<\/p>\n<p>What are you glad to see the back of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when the Post Office announced the end of the telegram. There were outraged protests: suppose grandma dropped dead and the relatives did not have a telephone, how could one advise them of the funeral? Somehow we managed. Today the &#8220;Daily Express&#8221; has a whimsical piece about other things that the advance of technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}