{"id":359,"date":"2007-09-03T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2007-09-08T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T16:27:53","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-a-prayer-for-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/359\/retro-scan-of-the-week-a-prayer-for-computers","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> A Prayer for Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/prayer_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/prayer_small.jpg\" alt=\"A Prayer for Computers\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">For <em>VC&#038;G&#8217;s<\/em> first dip into the deep, unsteady waters of religion, we have an interesting work of spiritual poetry, &#8220;A Man-Made Brain,&#8221; that I found in a Goodwill store yesterday.  It&#8217;s from a book titled <em>Lord, I Want to Tell You Something<\/em> by Chris Jones (Augsburg Publishing House, 1973), a book of every-day prayers &#8220;for boys between the ages of 9 and 13.&#8221;  I literally picked up the book and turned to this page, so perhaps the Lord wanted to tell <em>me<\/em> something (<em>&#8220;Use This For A Retro Scan of the Week, My Son&#8221;<\/em>).  Who am I to argue with divine provenance?<\/p>\n<p>My regards to Jones for his futuristic insight.  And for blowing my mind.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For VC&#038;G&#8217;s first dip into the deep, unsteady waters of religion, we have an interesting work of spiritual poetry, &#8220;A Man-Made Brain,&#8221; that I found in a Goodwill store yesterday. It&#8217;s from a book titled Lord, I Want to Tell You Something by Chris Jones (Augsburg Publishing House, 1973), a book of every-day prayers &#8220;for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}