{"id":127,"date":"2011-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2011-08-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:00:00","slug":"overkill-solution-to-a-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/overkill-solution-to-a-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Overkill solution to a clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a while back, we were having a problem with our 3-year old waking up progressivly earlier. Probalby due to it getting light out progressively earlier. One of the issues with living above the 45th parallel. He can&#8217;t read anything yet, so it seemed unreasonable to give him a clock and say, you can&#8217;t leave your room before 7:30. So, after pondering it for a couple days on how to give him an clear indication to him when it was OK to get up, but also not wake him up in the process I recalled the chumby: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.chumby.com\/\">http:\/\/www.chumby.com\/<\/a> was a nice little linux platform with touchscreen, and a quick trip through the user manual showed that you could get it to switch &quot;channels&quot; at specified times. So, $45 dollars on ebay later, I had an Insignia Infocast (a BestBuy branded version of the chumby). There was a bit of a hassle getting it deregistered\/registered, but a quick email to the chumby support cleared that up. Then I created a &quot;night&quot; and a &quot;day&quot; channel, set one to show a flickering candle and the other to show a koi pond with little fish. Then a couple of alarm settings to switch back and forth and done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s got an easy way to tell if it&#8217;s OK to be up in the morning. He doesn&#8217;t always pay attention to it, but sometimes when he comes out at the right time he tell us &quot;Wake. Fish. Wake.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, technology to the rescue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    <![CDATA[]]><br \/>\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/overkill-solution-to-a-clock\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}