{"id":619,"date":"2006-01-16T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2006-01-16T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T12:29:56","slug":"kids-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/kids-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids these days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..are way way more smartery than me.<\/p>\n<p>In my daily search for content to mindlessly regurgitate here, I stumbled across this:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/01\/16\/rubiks.ap\/index.html?section=cnn_topstories\">Rubik&#8217;s Cube World Record set<\/a>.  A 20 year old solved the thing in 11.13 seconds, apparently.  My rationale for believing kids are smarter these days?  That beats my best time by about 21 years.  I&#8217;ve never beat one without disassembling it, or peeling the stickers.    It&#8217;s very cathartic to talk about my secret shame, really.  <\/p>\n<p>Man, that&#8217;s fast.  It wasn&#8217;t enough to beat the reigning champ though, a 15 year old kid who had a sub-15 second average to take the World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..are way way more smartery than me. In my daily search for content to mindlessly regurgitate here, I stumbled across this: Rubik&#8217;s Cube World Record set. A 20 year old solved the thing in 11.13 seconds, apparently. My rationale for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/kids-these-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-9Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}