{"id":23,"date":"2015-07-06T23:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T07:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalwaterblade.com\/us\/?p=23"},"modified":"2017-09-11T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T22:59:24","slug":"facebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/facebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag Old Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong># Hashtag Indeed!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are we really the only ones that recognize a\u00a0&#8220;Pound&#8221; sign? I suppose you could make a good argument for &#8220;Number Symbol&#8221; as well &#8230; heck, if you really want to hang it out there, it&#8217;s Tic-Tac-Toe! Why does everyone want to make this so difficult?<\/p>\n<p>It makes us feel a little better that it doesn&#8217;t seem to be just us old guys (and gals) that are sometimes mired in a swamp of techno-confusion. The thumbing generation is just as perplexed by our world as we are by theirs. Exhibit A:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lolz. I just saw\u00a0this old fone and it had a hashtag button. How stoopid, they didn&#8217;t have Instagram back then!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The point? We&#8217;re so glad you asked. Here at One Pass World Headquarters in beautiful downtown Hollister we are learning the lingo, tagging the hashes, booking the faces and twitting the&#8230; oh, never mind. We finally signed up with Social Media!<\/p>\n<p>True we were probably the last people in North America that didn&#8217;t have a Facebook page, but that&#8217;s what makes it so exciting! We&#8217;re kind of like <em>The Omega Man<\/em> of Facebook. You know&#8230; Charlton Heston?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Omega Man? Oh for Pete&#8217;s sake&#8230; Will Smith &#8211; <em>I Am Legend<\/em>? Can we please get back on topic?<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to face our book or insta our gram using the handy little social symbols on the right side of the page. We&#8217;d really appreciate it. Especially since we probably only have three followers now. It&#8217;s a little embarrassing frankly. So how &#8217;bout showing us a little love? We promise to make it worth your while. Or at least try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p># Hashtag Indeed! Are we really the only ones that recognize a\u00a0&#8220;Pound&#8221; sign? I suppose you could make a good argument for &#8220;Number Symbol&#8221; as well &#8230; heck, if you really want to hang it out there, it&#8217;s Tic-Tac-Toe! Why does everyone want to make this so difficult? It makes us feel a little better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[130,132,129],"yst_prominent_words":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photodune-11590145-internet-of-things-concept-m-1140x445.jpg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photodune-11590145-internet-of-things-concept-m-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photodune-11590145-internet-of-things-concept-m-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"full":["https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photodune-11590145-internet-of-things-concept-m.jpg",1414,1414,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterblade.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}