{"id":737,"date":"2009-06-12T02:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caliban.org\/wp\/2009\/06\/12\/old\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T02:35:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T01:35:17","slug":"old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2009\/06\/old\/","title":{"rendered":"Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to know how to make yourself feel old?<\/p>\n\n<p>Fire up Rock Band 2 on your PS3, hit the network for an On-line Tour and find yourself some bandmates. Last night, my band found itself performing with a singer in Massachusetts and a bass player in Washington.<\/p>\n\n<p>After a while, we enquired about one another&#8217;s age; and so it was revealed that the singer of my band was just 11 years old, and the bass player an impressive 15.<\/p>\n\n<p>At 3 in the morning, you suddenly feel quite old when you realise you&#8217;re playing a plastic guitar in a virtual band with a singer whose voice hasn&#8217;t even broken yet. That kid&#8217;s barely a quarter of my age and only seven years older than Elo&iuml;se.<\/p>\n\n<p>At the same time, this illustrates how unbelievably cool, powerful and social the Internet is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to know how to make yourself feel old? Fire up Rock Band 2 on your PS3, hit the network for an On-line Tour and find yourself some bandmates. Last night, my band found itself performing with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/2009\/06\/old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caliban.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}