{"id":909,"date":"2011-11-27T19:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T00:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/?p=909"},"modified":"2011-11-27T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T00:32:15","slug":"the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html","title":{"rendered":"The real reason the iPad was invented &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now you know why you shelled out the big bucks for that touch-screen smart tablet.<\/p>\n<p>To entertain your cat!<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from this video, sure there are lots of games for kids &#8212; Mario, skiing penguins, talking T-Rexes &#8212; but yes, there are downloadable apps for your favorite feline.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XK2dwTVi-aQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you know why you shelled out the big bucks for that touch-screen smart tablet. To entertain your cat! As you can see from this video, sure there are lots of games for kids &#8212; Mario, skiing penguins, talking T-Rexes &#8212; but yes, there are downloadable apps for your favorite feline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","tag-ipad"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The real reason the iPad was invented ... - Good News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The real reason the iPad was invented ... - Good News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now you know why you shelled out the big bucks for that touch-screen smart tablet. To entertain your cat! As you can see from this video, sure there are lots of games for kids &#8212; Mario, skiing penguins, talking T-Rexes &#8212; but yes, there are downloadable apps for your favorite feline.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Good News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-28T00:56:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-28T00:32:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The real reason the iPad was invented ... - Good News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The real reason the iPad was invented ... - Good News","og_description":"Now you know why you shelled out the big bucks for that touch-screen smart tablet. To entertain your cat! As you can see from this video, sure there are lots of games for kids &#8212; Mario, skiing penguins, talking T-Rexes &#8212; but yes, there are downloadable apps for your favorite feline.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html","og_site_name":"Good News","article_published_time":"2011-11-28T00:56:57+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-11-28T00:32:15+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html","name":"The real reason the iPad was invented ... - Good News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-11-28T00:56:57+00:00","dateModified":"2011-11-28T00:32:15+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/11\/the-real-reason-the-ipad-was-invented.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The real reason the iPad was invented &#8230;"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/","name":"Good News","description":"Good News - What&#039;s REALLY happening in the world!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/author"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}