{"id":3220,"date":"2015-02-20T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2015-02-20T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:28:29","slug":"food-thought-banana-still-represented-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2015\/02\/food-thought-banana-still-represented-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought:  Why is the banana still represented as the phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3221 alignleft\" alt=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/images.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/em>Think about it. The banana is a long, curvy, mushy, and yellow fruit. Nowadays a phone is rectangular, hard, digital, black, straight, and inedible. I don\u2019t see one word in these descriptions that are at all similar to the banana.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I understand how the early phones had a lot in common with a banana. The were both long and curved, but why do we still have a connection with them today? The only reason this symbol is still used is that we enjoy feeling connected to our past.\u00a0It makes us feel, well, human.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: This article is the first in a series entitled \u201cFood for Thought.\u201d It\u2019s about little snippets that come to us when we let our minds drift and think about things we wouldn\u2019t normally think about.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about it. The banana is a long, curvy, mushy, and yellow fruit. Nowadays a phone is rectangular, hard, digital, black, straight, and inedible. I don\u2019t see one word in these descriptions that are at all similar to the banana. I understand how the early phones had a lot in common with a banana. The were both long and curved, but why do we still have a connection with them today? The only reason this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":3221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[241,242],"coauthors":[119],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-banana","tag-food-for-thought"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/images.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}