{"id":28414,"date":"2026-05-07T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28414"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:29:09","slug":"restoring-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28414","title":{"rendered":"Restoring wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern technology is amazing, but it&#8217;s hard to get excited about it because we are simply too used to it.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we could experience that technology as though encountering it for the first time? There is a certain sense of childlike wonder that a little bit of distance might give us.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you had never seen a television, or an airplane or a smartphone. Think how delightful it would be to come across such a  strange and wondrous thing.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether there is any way we could recapture that sense of excitement and delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern technology is amazing, but it&#8217;s hard to get excited about it because we are simply too used to it. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we could experience that technology as though encountering it for the first time? There is a certain sense of childlike wonder that a little bit of distance might give us. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Restoring wonder&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28415,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28414\/revisions\/28415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}