{"id":4411,"date":"2007-03-16T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/16\/how-can-a-genius-like-me-be-so-bad-at-technology"},"modified":"2007-03-16T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T17:46:00","slug":"how-can-a-genius-like-me-be-so-bad-at-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=4411","title":{"rendered":"How Can A Genius Like Me Be So Bad At Technology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m also bad at keeping up a blog.  But that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m on a deadline, dangit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bad at technology.  I cannot install Flash player on my computer for some reason.  Oh, it says it is installed.  It lies.  Like a rug.<\/p>\n<p>I also can&#8217;t navigate the murkey depths of amazon.com, either.  I tried to make a comment on a review there (for my own book, which was probably not the best decision I&#8217;ve ever made, but I try to live with no regrets) and I ended up continually deleting the post, over and over again.  I&#8217;d get nearly done and I&#8217;d hit the wrong thing and the delete the entire post.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand it.  How on earth can I function as an otherwise normal human, yet completely screw up something as simple as navigating a website?<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I vow to be better at this whole &#8220;blog updating&#8221; thing.  I don&#8217;t understand how people manage it, really.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and thanks to everyone who came out to my signings last week.  I know some of you drove a long, long way.  Don&#8217;t tax your engines, okay?  I&#8217;m not that cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m also bad at keeping up a blog. But that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m on a deadline, dangit. I&#8217;m bad at technology. I cannot install Flash player&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=4411\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Can A Genius Like Me Be So Bad At Technology?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}