{"id":1124,"date":"2009-06-19T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/texting-queen.html"},"modified":"2009-06-19T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T11:59:00","slug":"texting-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/texting-queen.html","title":{"rendered":"Texting Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No I&#8217;m not talking about Lauren, although her prowess at texting is formidable, and she might one day be a contender for this competition.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, 15-year old <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17852_3-10266271-71.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\">Kate Moore is the Texting Queen<\/a>.  A title earned in a competition similar to the old typing contests where speed and accuracy count.  With a twist, apparently they throw distractions at you.  Like a guy dressed as en emoticon talking trash, or one part where you had to text blindfolded.  There were 250,000 people (and I&#8217;m guessing 249, 963 were girls) entered in this competition.  Said typical teen Kate afterward when recalling the ordeal, &#8220;OMG, I thought I was gonna die!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course she did.  On the plus side, there was a $50,000 prize for first, which I guess could be considered a &#8220;texting scholarship&#8221; of sorts.  So keep up the hard work Lauren!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No I&#8217;m not talking about Lauren, although her prowess at texting is formidable, and she might one day be a<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/06\/texting-queen.html\" title=\"Read Texting Queen\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}