{"id":12074,"date":"2012-03-07T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:11:36","slug":"one-ringy-dingy-two-ringy-dingy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/one-ringy-dingy-two-ringy-dingy\/","title":{"rendered":"One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k9e3dTOJi0o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hello Sweet Shoppers!\u00a0 It&#8217;s Kresta here, with a little bit of a history lesson for you.\u00a0 Ready?\u00a0 Good!\u00a0 Well, on this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, who was 29 years old, received a patent for his new invention &#8211; the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>My! How far we&#8217;ve come in 136 years!\u00a0 What in the world would we do without our phones??!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iphone4-pic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12077\" title=\"iphone4 pic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iphone4-pic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iphone4-pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iphone4-pic.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would be willing to bet that talking is probably the thing most of spend the least amount of time doing on our phones.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so true.\u00a0 I use my phone as a camera, as a calculator, for email, to play games and music, to check Facebook and Twitter along with lots of other websites (like SSD!), to message my husband and friends, to play games, to read, to to keep track of my cycle, to create a grocery list, to keep up with what&#8217;s on my calendar, etc.\u00a0 The list could go on and on!\u00a0 In fact, my husband even uses his for hunting (feeding times and animal calls) &#8211; it&#8217;s crazy!<\/p>\n<p>And with the creation of things like FaceTime and Skype, what I thought as a little girl would never be possible in my lifetime, is now just an everyday thing for many people.<\/p>\n<p>I remember how big my family&#8217;s first cellphone was.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny to think about those big packs people used to carry around.\u00a0 We definitely have come a long way.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this today and thought it was funny:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/funny-old-new-cell-phones-comic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12076\" title=\"funny-old-new-cell-phones-comic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/funny-old-new-cell-phones-comic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, a very big THANK YOU to Mr. Bell for getting this whole obsession into motion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Sweet Shoppers!\u00a0 It&#8217;s Kresta here, with a little bit of a history lesson for you.\u00a0 Ready?\u00a0 Good!\u00a0 Well, on this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, who was 29 years old, received a patent for his new invention &#8211; the telephone. 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How far we&#8217;ve come in 136 years!\u00a0 What in the world would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":12077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12078,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions\/12078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}