{"id":271,"date":"2014-09-10T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/?p=271"},"modified":"2014-09-10T20:45:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T01:45:45","slug":"apple-watch-vs-my-story-forget-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2014\/09\/10\/apple-watch-vs-my-story-forget-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch vs My Story Forget It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1977, I got a phone call from a man starting up a computer magazine, ROM. He knew I wrote science fiction and he had an issue coming up with a focus on memory. He requested a story and I quickly wrote one &#8212; <em>Forget It!<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0In this story I dreamed up my ideal PDA\/wristwatch. \u00a0Over the years, I&#8217;ve owned many gadgets that hinted at what I wrote, but the new Apple Watch comes the closest. \u00a0If you would like to read the story, you can get it free at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/henrysstories.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/forget-it-part-1-of-2.html\">http:\/\/henrysstories.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/forget-it-part-1-of-2.html<\/a>\u00a0or its also included in my anthology <a href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/books\/henrys-stories-volume-1\/\">Henry&#8217;s Stories Volume 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2014\/09\/10\/apple-watch-vs-my-story-forget-it\/img_0461\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-272\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Forget It!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0461-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forget It!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1977, I got a phone call from a man starting up a computer magazine, ROM. He knew I wrote science fiction and he had an issue coming up with a focus on memory. He requested a story and I quickly wrote one &#8212; Forget It!\u00a0 \u00a0In this story I dreamed up my ideal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2014\/09\/10\/apple-watch-vs-my-story-forget-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple Watch vs My Story Forget It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,9,8,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-4n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}