{"id":17131,"date":"2022-12-25T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T21:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2022-12-25T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T21:15:58","slug":"edwin-morgans-the-computers-first-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/25\/edwin-morgans-the-computers-first-christmas-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Morgan\u2019s \u201cThe Computer\u2019s First Christmas Card\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>as performed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.festvox.org\/flite\/\">flite<\/a> speech synthesizer and some shell scripts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Edwin_Morgan-The_Computers_First_Christmas_Card.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Computer&#8217;s First Christmas card<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not quite as good as having the late Prof. Morgan recite it to you himself \u2014 one of the few high points of my school experience \u2014 but you take what you can get in this economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-blue-background-color has-background\"> MERRY CHRISTMAS<br>*** FORTRAN STOP<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as performed by the flite speech synthesizer and some shell scripts Not quite as good as having the late Prof. Morgan recite it to you himself \u2014 one of the few high points of my school experience \u2014 but you take what you can get in this economy. MERRY CHRISTMAS*** FORTRAN STOP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[823,2481,1199,3238],"class_list":["post-17131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-computer","tag-poetry","tag-scotland","tag-tts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4sj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17134,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions\/17134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}