{"id":1,"date":"2021-01-11T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-01-11T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:52:10","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/2021\/01\/11\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What a silly site name!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I checked out synonyms for &#8220;text&#8221; <em>(idea) and<\/em> synonyms for &#8220;technology&#8221; (<em>machinery)<\/em> and that&#8217;s how the site name came to be. When I think about what the word &#8216;text&#8217; means to me, I conjure up thoughts of printed images. In that sense text is anything that is visually consumed in digital or printed form (although, in saying that, it feels like ablest terminology and I&#8217;m going to have reflect on that). Examples of text would include words, graphs, tables, and pictures. With respect to technology, I immediately think of modern examples of technology such as computers, however I also think about technology being any tool or resource that changes the way we engage with a task or object. I think that technology is sometimes associated with the idea of progress, but I personally have always been uncomfortable with the concept of progress when the values and worldviews associated with that idea aren&#8217;t problematized. I&#8217;m looking forward to reflecting, expanding, and critiquing my understanding of text technologies and their relationship to reading and writing while working through this course<em> ETEC 540 Text Technologies: The changing spaces of reading and writing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I checked out synonyms for &#8220;text&#8221; (idea) and synonyms for &#8220;technology&#8221; (machinery) and that&#8217;s how the site name came to be. When I think about what the word &#8216;text&#8217; means to me, I conjure up thoughts of printed images. In that sense text is anything that is visually consumed in digital or printed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ideamachinery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}