{"id":1365,"date":"2006-10-10T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2006-10-10T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T18:51:07","slug":"kickin_it_old_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"Kickin’ It Old Skool"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, you’re probably tired of seeing yet another entry devoted to brain-machine interfaces and all the fun things you can do with them.  But this is my blog and I can post whatever I bloody well please, so here’s a story about a kid who was able to play Space Invaders with his brain<\/a>.  The article doesn’t mention whether this technology is compatible with Asteroids<\/i> or Centipede<\/i>.  <\/p>\n

I actually have a fond association with Space Invaders<\/i>.  Way back in 1981, I had just had spinal fusion surgery and was experiencing some painful post-op sciatica; painful enough to make it difficult to sit up in my wheelchair.  In an effort to distract me from the pain, I was brought to rec room that had one of those newfangled Atari systems.  My dad and I started playing Space Invaders<\/i> and before I knew it, I had been sitting up in my chair for two or three hours straight.  <\/p>\n

I find it a little disquieting to realize I haven’t changed much since then.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, you’re probably tired of seeing yet another entry devoted to brain-machine interfaces and all the fun things you can do with them.  But this is my blog and I can post whatever I bloody well please, so here’s a story about a kid who was able to play Space Invaders with his brain.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-m1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}