{"id":22168,"date":"2020-04-22T15:54:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22168"},"modified":"2020-04-22T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:54:37","slug":"zoombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22168","title":{"rendered":"Zoombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until today, I had thought that &#8220;Zoombies&#8221; was just a 2016 direct-to-TV movie about a zombie outbreak at a zoo (in case you were wondering, the animals all turn into flesh-eating zombies).<\/p>\n<p>But today somebody pointed out to me that the term &#8220;Zoombies&#8221; has taken on another meeting. It is currently being used to describe young people who spend all of their time glued to a screen while using Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>I kind of like the word in this context &#8212; it has a nice ring to it. And I guess that in the larger scheme of things, the phenomenon is not so bad.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s much better than all the animals turning into flesh eating zombies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until today, I had thought that &#8220;Zoombies&#8221; was just a 2016 direct-to-TV movie about a zombie outbreak at a zoo (in case you were wondering, the animals all turn into flesh-eating zombies). But today somebody pointed out to me that the term &#8220;Zoombies&#8221; has taken on another meeting. It is currently being used to describe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zoombies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\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":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22169,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168\/revisions\/22169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}