{"id":1787,"date":"2014-10-22T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2024-11-13T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T01:01:52","slug":"worried-vicissitudes-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/worried-vicissitudes-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Worried about the vicissitudes of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/worried-vicissitudes-life\/\" data-text=\"Are You Worried about the vicissitudes of life%3f\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>You know&#8230;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/vicissitude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vicissitudes<\/a>&#8230;\u00a0<\/em>the changes or variations occurring in the course of life. \u00a0Well, are you? \u00a0I&#8217;m not. \u00a0But if you are, maybe you&#8217;d like to consider a virtual presence device. \u00a0Like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjWfur9at2s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t laugh. \u00a0I mean, yes, laugh becasue that&#8217;s supposed to be funny. \u00a0But <em>don&#8217;t laugh<\/em> at this &#8211; apparently this is becoming a thing &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/irobot-cisco-unveil-telepresence-robot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see this article at PC Mag<\/a>.\u00a0 The geeks are the ones who decide what becomes a thing and what doesn&#8217;t. \u00a0And the Geeks are telling us This<em>\u00a0Will Be a Thing<\/em>! \u00a0 Meh. \u00a0Might not be so bad. \u00a0Harder to catch Ebola, I suppose. \u00a0But it will probably lead to something like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/worried-vicissitudes-life\/robot-cat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1788\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/robot-cat.jpg\" alt=\"robot cat\" width=\"345\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/robot-cat.jpg 345w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/robot-cat-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/robot-cat-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now can you tell me just how in the heck that thing is supposed to get in and out of the litter box?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet You know&#8230;vicissitudes&#8230;\u00a0the changes or variations occurring in the course of life. \u00a0Well, are you? \u00a0I&#8217;m not. \u00a0But if you are, maybe you&#8217;d like to consider a virtual presence device. \u00a0Like this: Don&#8217;t laugh. \u00a0I mean, yes, laugh becasue that&#8217;s supposed to be funny. \u00a0But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}