{"id":17017,"date":"2025-03-23T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/?p=17017"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:56","slug":"march-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2025\/03\/23\/march-break\/","title":{"rendered":"March Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/2025\/03\/scan20250323_37.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17018\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:840px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While fiddling with the cruise control I discovered that the car has steering assistance. Oh my word, it&#8217;s lovely!<br><br>Yeah yeah, I know, &#8220;Don&#8217;t rely on the technology, keep your hands on the wheel, pay attention&#8221; etc, and I did all that, but what a lot of effort it relieves to have the car keep itself at a steady speed and squarely positioned in the lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m the first to admit that <a mutable-parsed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow\/\">there&#8217;s a lot wrong with our current technologies<\/a>, but it sure is nice when inventors get it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. The second panel makes A. look like a little kid, but he was just slumped down in the chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/2025\/03\/scan20250323_38.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17019\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While fiddling with the cruise control I discovered that the car has steering assistance. Oh my word, it&#8217;s lovely! Yeah yeah, I know, &#8220;Don&#8217;t rely on the technology, keep your hands on the wheel, pay attention&#8221; etc, and I did all that, but what a lot of effort it relieves to have the car keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}