{"id":3662,"date":"2010-05-10T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2010-05-10T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:19:26","slug":"mom-laptop-facebook-asplosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-family\/mom-laptop-facebook-asplosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom + laptop = FACEBOOK ASPLOSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a rainy morning here in scenic Saltillo, Tenn. Bill Engvall’s funny-video show is on the TV and dad’s in the recliner snoring. Mom’s napping in bed.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we gave my mom a laptop for Mother’s Day, which she was so excited and surprised about. She and Dad have had the same old Dell desktop since about 2001. They’ve done no operating system or RAM upgrades in the intervening years, so you can sort of imagine how the thing is running now. Mom’s chronic pain issues also make it hard for her sometimes to get upstairs and sit at the desk for long periods of time. <\/p>\n

Soon as we got the laptop set up (I installed Chrome and Firefox for her to play with, as well as iTunes and OpenOffice and all her PopCap games I could find activation keys for), she was updating her Facebook page and surfing like a champ. Kudos to my sister for pushing for the laptop for Mother’s Day when I was pushing for Christmas.<\/p>\n

Mom has been raving about my coffee grinder<\/a> since the first time she used it, so I got her one of her own. She couldn’t believe the Mother’s Day bounty this year. She’ll be buzzin’ and laptoppin’ around the clock now. This will surely result in my being scolded about my language at a rate I am definitely unprepared for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a rainy morning here in scenic Saltillo, Tenn. Bill Engvall’s funny-video show is on the TV and dad’s in the recliner snoring. Mom’s napping in bed. Yesterday we gave my mom a laptop for Mother’s Day, which she was so excited and surprised about. She and Dad have had the same old Dell desktop since about 2001. They’ve done no operating system or RAM upgrades in the intervening years, so you can sort of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[479,85],"tags":[500,451,1052,2220],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-the-family","tag-family","tag-mom","tag-mothers-day","tag-saltillo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-X4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}