{"id":74107,"date":"2020-05-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74107"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:06:40","slug":"techno-peasants-arise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74107","title":{"rendered":"Techno Peasants, Arise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There&#8217;s definite technological and age bias in the Governor&#8217;s Stay Home order.<br>Sure, curbside and drive-thru are open. But to pick up at the curbside, you must place an online order, and I can never make their menu website work.&nbsp;Old people are less tech-savvy. The order is age discrimination.<\/p><p>And to go through the drive-thru takes a million years because all the people who formerly parked to go inside and talk to one of the three order-takers at the counter, are now waiting to talk to the one order-taker on the tinny box. Cars at Chick-fil-A are backed up all around the parking lot, out across the driving lane, all the way to Barnes &amp; Noble. I can never understand what the order-taker is squawking. Probably slight loss of hearing, what with being old and all. Again, more age discrimination.<\/p><p>What was wrong with going to Keys, sitting in a booth where the nice lady would take my order for meatloaf, bring me some water and bread, I could relax and read a book until my order came?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about building a replica of Mickey&#8217;s Diner (the one on West 7th, not downtown) in my basement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s definite technological and age bias in the Governor&#8217;s Stay Home order.Sure, curbside and drive-thru are open. But to pick up at the curbside, you must place an online order, and I can never make their menu website work.&nbsp;Old people are less tech-savvy. The order is age discrimination. And to go through the drive-thru takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,30,2],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberty","category-minnesota-politics","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74111,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74107\/revisions\/74111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}