{"id":7158,"date":"2011-09-19T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7158"},"modified":"2011-09-19T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:21:42","slug":"gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7158","title":{"rendered":"Uses of GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a car yesterday with my cousin, discussing how best to make use of a Global Positioning System.  My cousin, who was driving, said that he liked to try to get places on his own.  If he takes a wrong turn or finds himself getting lost, he can then turn on the GPS, and it will give him the advice he needs to get back on the right path.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about my cousin&#8217;s philosophy for a bit, and then I told him, &#8220;I use a similar philosophy in my personal life, except that the GPS I end up turning to are my friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, as we drove along, I thought about it a little longer, and I said: &#8220;Come to think of it, in my personal life I usually wait way too long before turning to the GPS.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a car yesterday with my cousin, discussing how best to make use of a Global Positioning System. My cousin, who was driving, said that he liked to try to get places on his own. If he takes a wrong turn or finds himself getting lost, he can then turn on the GPS, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uses of GPS&#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\/7158"}],"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=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}