{"id":274,"date":"2011-09-27T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T02:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Lifeforce-in-Later-Years.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2014-09-19T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:17:02","slug":"coming-of-age-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/2011\/09\/27\/coming-of-age-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming of Age&#8230;Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer, one Morningside Village senior in his mid-eighties amazingly entered the age of technology.\u00a0 He has always been well-read, often spending an afternoon in the library.\u00a0 But, he had a hankering to join the computer age, even though he was without a computer and knew nothing about them or even about using a keyboard. He&#8217;d easily made it through his formative years, through his procreative years, through WW II, as a U.S. Marine in the Pacific, through a career in grounds management, yet he was feeling that he had an insurmountable hurtle, making it into the computer-centered culture.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"Blog-Post-Image-Right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/LiLY-images\/MV-Blog-images\/Frank-G-Typing-On-Laptop-Keyboard-002.jpg\" title=\"Photo of Frank G typing on his laptop keyboard\" alt=\"Photo of Frank G typing on his laptop keyboard\" style=\"width:275px\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Three volunteers changed all that.\u00a0 A high school grad, Tanzina N., in&shy;tern&shy;ed for us this summer, and she was very keen on teaching the senior how to use a key&shy;board and how to get online.\u00a0 She visited him several times a week for an hour or two per session, using a computer at the library for starters.\u00a0 Then, by chance, Joe B., a friend of MV who lives in the community, wanted to donate his old laptop to the organization in case someone could use it.\u00a0 Another volunteer, John H., was able to bring the computer up to date.\u00a0 We then gift-wrapped it and presented it to the senior.\u00a0 You can imagine the look on his face. \u00a0 He is now a happy member of the computer age; and, he says, &#8220;aside from all the research I can do, without a telephone, I&#8217;m now connected!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer, one Morningside Village senior in his mid-eighties amazingly entered the age of technology.\u00a0 He has always been well-read, often spending an afternoon in the library.\u00a0 But, he had a hankering to join the computer age, even though he was without a computer and knew nothing about them or even about using a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morningside-village-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lily-old.org\/LiLY-blogs\/Morningside-Village-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}