{"id":1730,"date":"2008-06-30T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/06\/30\/its-a-good-thing-im-technologically-illiterate\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:15:17","slug":"its-a-good-thing-im-technologically-illiterate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/06\/30\/its-a-good-thing-im-technologically-illiterate\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Good Thing I&#8217;m Technologically Illiterate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a spectacular thunder and lightning storm while I was at work on Friday. The sky got dark and then I saw lightning in the distance. It hadn&#8217;t begun raining in my area yet so I opened the door to my office&#8217;s roof deck and listened to the thunder. When I saw a lightning, I figured I&#8217;d try to take pictures of future lightning bolts.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed my cell phone (which I can barely use to make phone calls, let alone take photographs) and returned to the door way. I couldn&#8217;t quite find the button so when the next lightning bolt struck I just pushed inward (the whole phone moved). I couldn&#8217;t tell if the picture took or not so I just continued taking photos.<\/p>\n<p>It was very frustrating because the cell phone would automatically go into idle mode after 20 seconds so I would have to press buttons to turn it on again, then find the camera option. Of course, by that time numerous lightning bolts had already flashed. I just kept clicking&#8230;hoping that lightning would strike at the same time I pressed the buttons on the phone (there was also a slight delay between pressing the button and the actual photo being taken).<\/p>\n<p>Yet through some miracle, the first photograph I took actually worked! It was the only one to catch a lightning bolt striking the ground. The rest were just blurry messes or boring cloud shots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a spectacular thunder and lightning storm while I was at work on Friday. The sky got dark and then I saw lightning in the distance. It hadn&#8217;t begun raining in my area yet so I opened the door to my office&#8217;s roof deck and listened to the thunder. When I saw a lightning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}