{"id":36461,"date":"2022-07-02T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36461"},"modified":"2022-07-02T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T23:47:42","slug":"news-for-older-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/02\/news-for-older-users\/","title":{"rendered":"News For Older Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought <em><strong>RadioShack<\/strong><\/em> was gone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gen Z may not be familiar with the RadioShack of their grandparents, but they\u2019re getting to know its replacement. The 100-year-old retailer reintroduced itself on Twitter this week with a stream of often-profane tweets \u2014 some since deleted \u2014 filled with crude comments and drug references.<\/p>\n<p>Variations of, \u201cWhat in the world is going on?\u201d peppered the comment threads, but a glance of the company\u2019s Twitter profile partly held the answer: RadioShack is no longer the electronics store Americans ran to for generations, but rather an online cryptocurrency company that also happens to sell batteries.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2022\/07\/01\/radio-shack-tweets\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F374458b%2F62c06a13cfe8a21601cfd510%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F28%2F72%2F62c06a13cfe8a21601cfd510&amp;wp_cu=9055fac022b53fc12e7e48b712be9bf1%7C5C39B574A4EE418DE0530100007F3ABF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It used to be a respectable entity, which, for those readers whose eyes just skip over <em>respectable<\/em> as meaningless, actually means trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>I still have my <em><strong>RadioShack<\/strong><\/em> multimeter that I must have bought thirty years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought RadioShack was gone. Gen Z may not be familiar with the RadioShack of their grandparents, but they\u2019re getting to know its replacement. The 100-year-old retailer reintroduced itself on Twitter this week with a stream of often-profane tweets \u2014 some since deleted \u2014 filled with crude comments and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/02\/news-for-older-users\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36462,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36461\/revisions\/36462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}