{"id":23073,"date":"2016-09-26T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Before-there-were-general-purpose-computers-there-were-special-purpose-computers-that-did-one-thing-and-did-it"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:47:34","slug":"before-there-were-general-purpose-computers-there-were-special-purpose-computers-that-did-one-thing-and-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/09\/26\/before-there-were-general-purpose-computers-there-were-special-purpose-computers-that-did-one-thing-and-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Before there were general-purpose computers, there were special-purpose computers that did one thing and did it,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before there were general-purpose computers, there were special-purpose computers that did one thing and did it, often, surprisingly well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attn: steampunk authors.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-strange-victorian-computer-that-generated-latin-verse\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-strange-victorian-computer-that-generated-latin-verse<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Before there were general-purpose computers, there were special-purpose computers that did one thing and did it,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-23073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff-thought-starters","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}