{"id":655,"date":"2006-12-23T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=655"},"modified":"2006-12-23T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T18:57:00","slug":"a-view-from-our-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"A view from our Hobby&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan <span class=\"q\">KG6SUL sent us this clipping, which appeared as an Op-Ed piece from the Fresno Bee.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Computers aren&#8217;t worth the hassle or intrusion &#8211; 12\/22\/06<\/p>\n<p>From articles in The Bee, there are more bad things than good things about computers and the Internet. Spam, junk mail, e-mail and also the child molesters. As an active ham radio operator, I know there are many operators who have wired in their computers to send Morse code taking away the fun of doing the job as it was intended &#8212; by hand.<\/p>\n<p>There is also image spam, in which the advertisement is part of the picture. Just plain gobbledy-goop.<\/p>\n<p>For my part, I will not have a computer in my house. I am not afraid of temptation to use it for illegal purposes, but it seems as though any new concept attracts the riff-raff of our generation. Thanks, but no thanks.<\/p>\n<p>James M. Buntain W6VYM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More of the &#8220;Get off my lawn&#8221; mindset that seems to be rampant in our fair hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan KG6SUL sent us this clipping, which appeared as an Op-Ed piece from the Fresno Bee. Computers aren&#8217;t worth the hassle or intrusion &#8211; 12\/22\/06 From articles in The Bee, there are more bad things than good things about computers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamsexyness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}