{"id":840,"date":"2008-04-14T10:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2008\/04\/14\/and-dont-talk-back\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:54:27","slug":"and-dont-talk-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"And don&#8217;t talk back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told you how excited I was about my new Roomba vacuum, right?  Now I can go back to cleaning my floors more than once a week (just kidding, I really do clean more than once a week).  But this new roomba has some &#8220;new and improved&#8221; features that I&#8217;m not so sure about.<br \/>\nI push the little start button, for example, and the roomba says to me (yes, it talks!) &#8220;Please remove and clean roomba&#8217;s  brushes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Um, excuse me?  You are a vacuum.  A tool.  I don&#8217;t want you telling me what to do, here, just get busy and clean the floor!<\/p>\n<p>But what do I do?  I remove and clean the brushes.  I don&#8217;t want to make it mad at me and not do any work, now do I?  <\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t know if I like the &#8220;talking back&#8221; feature.  I get enough of that from my kids, for heaven&#8217;s sake.  Next thing you know, I&#8217;ll push start to get it to vacuum, and it&#8217;ll start giving me wardrobe advice, &#8220;Are you really going to wear that shirt with those pants?  Did you not have time to do your hair this morning?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>All right, already!  Shut up and vacuum! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you how excited I was about my new Roomba vacuum, right? Now I can go back to cleaning my floors more than once a week (just kidding, I really do clean more than once a week). But this new roomba has some &#8220;new and improved&#8221; features that I&#8217;m not so sure about. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}