{"id":39787,"date":"2015-02-08T23:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T23:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-my-little-pony-turned-a-little-girl-into-a\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T23:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T23:45:39","slug":"how-my-little-pony-turned-a-little-girl-into-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-my-little-pony-turned-a-little-girl-into-a\/","title":{"rendered":"How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer\u00a0scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/110340276247\/how-my-little-pony-turned-a-little-girl-into-a\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/f4732e30cbe6a62a7182cc379eb1d0b6\/tumblr_inline_nje8upeh0A1rkw4x1.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On the drive back from Madison yesterday, I listened to a lecture by<br \/>\nMIT psychologist Sherry Turkle on the very personal relationships we<br \/>\nhave with objects, particularly the objects that help us think. Turkle<br \/>\ntalked about her 2008 book, <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11417\">Falling for Science<\/a>,<br \/>\n a collection of interviews with MIT students, and established<br \/>\nscientists, about the objects that first drew their minds to math,<br \/>\ncomputers, science and technology. Some were what you\u2019d expect: Broken<br \/>\nradios, Legos, a computer. But one story, about a My Little Pony, really<br \/>\n caught my attention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/10\/how-my-little-pony-t.html\"><b>Read the rest\u2026<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: On the drive back from Madison yesterday, I listened to a lecture by MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle on the very personal relationships we have with objects, particularly the objects that help us think. Turkle talked about her 2008 book, Falling for Science, a collection of interviews with MIT students, and established scientists, about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-critical-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-alJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}