{"id":1106,"date":"2018-01-13T01:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/the-thumb-thing\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T22:58:42","slug":"the-thumb-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/the-thumb-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thumb Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a teenager I remember reading a science-fiction story which predicted that by the 21st century, information would be piped directly into the brain. In this story, a character encountered that most archaic object, an old-fashioned book, and felt appalled that people in the 20th century had been forced to endure so much physical discomfort, holding books and turning their pages manually &#8212; or trying to prevent the pages from turning if there was a breeze.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we are in 2006, and yet another science-fiction prediction has failed to pan out. While we&#8217;re waiting for wetware implants, we&#8217;ll just have to make do with a stopgap solution: A plastic thumb aid.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/archives\/tool-thumbthing-2.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Manipulation Device<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30535,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/30535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}