{"id":456,"date":"2010-04-19T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/is-there-anything-the-ipad-cant-do.html"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:49:15","slug":"is-there-anything-the-ipad-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/is-there-anything-the-ipad-cant-do.html","title":{"rendered":"Is there anything the iPad can&#8217;t do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/apple\/7606722\/Volcanic-ash-cloud-Trapped-Norwegian-PM-ran-country-on-iPad.html\">Probably not:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, who was stranded in New York because of Iceland&#8217;s volcanic ash cloud over the weekend, was using an iPad to run his government remotely, according to his press secretary. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my new favorite prime minister hard at work at the airport. <i>Tusen takk,<\/i> dude, for helping me make my case to the skeptical and austere prime minister of my household that we rilly, rilly need to get an iPad. (&#8220;Sell the house in Dallas first, then we&#8217;ll talk,&#8221; she says, meanly):<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Norwegian-PM_1618972c.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/199\/import\/Norwegian-PM_1618972c.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<b>UPDATE:<\/b> Behold, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5520164\/this-is-apples-next-iphone?skyline=true&amp;s=i\">the next generation iPhone has a front-facing camera for video chat<\/a>; you just know the next generation iPad will too. I&#8217;m gonna wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably not: Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, who was stranded in New York because of Iceland&#8217;s volcanic ash cloud over the weekend, was using an iPad to run his government remotely, according to his press secretary. 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Tusen takk, dude, for helping me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is there anything the iPad can&#039;t do? - Rod Dreher<\/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\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/is-there-anything-the-ipad-cant-do.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is there anything the iPad can&#039;t do? - Rod Dreher\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Probably not: Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, who was stranded in New York because of Iceland&#8217;s volcanic ash cloud over the weekend, was using an iPad to run his government remotely, according to his press secretary. 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