{"id":948,"date":"2015-11-23T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=948"},"modified":"2015-11-23T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:52:34","slug":"our-little-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Our Little Hacker."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan loved technology very early in his life.  I remember the first time I tried to show him how to use a computer.  I thought it was funny to see his little hand working the mouse.  The mouse was bigger than his hand.  I just thought that was so funny.  He seemed to go through the educational games we got for him faster than we could produce them.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DylanComputerSmall2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DylanComputerSmall2.png\" alt=\"DylanComputerSmall2\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-956\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I rewarded him one year for doing so well school by telling him he would get a computer, but he would have to build it.  I bought the parts and explained each one to him and supervised while he put it together.  I might have put the heat sink on the CPU, but that was it.  I am pretty sure he learned something from the experience, because he used to talk about the technical details of what he wanted in his next computer.  For gaming of course.  I always thought that he might go into some kind of technology career, but he seemed disinterested.  I suspect that is mostly because he didn&#8217;t want to do the same kind of work as his dad.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The holidays are upon us and we continue to miss you terribly, Dylan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan loved technology very early in his life. I remember the first time I tried to show him how to use a computer. I thought it was funny to see his little hand working the mouse. The mouse was bigger than his hand. I just thought that was so funny. He seemed to go through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=948\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Little Hacker.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}