{"id":307,"date":"2024-09-23T20:17:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/?p=307"},"modified":"2024-09-23T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:17:58","slug":"journal-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/2024\/09\/23\/journal-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal #4"},"content":{"rendered":"I am able to apply Maslows\u2019s Heirarchy of Needs to a single type of technology that I use<br \/>pretty often, and I know others use far more frequently than myself. That technology is digital<br \/>payment systems, whether it is Venmo, Cashapp, Paypal, Affirm, Applepay, Googlepay or<br \/>Samsung Pay, depends on the situation, but all forms of digital payment. For Physiological needs<br \/>I use digital payments to order my groceries for pickup at Target or Wegmans, along with paying<br \/>my utilities. For Safety needs, I use digital payments to pay for my home security system and my<br \/>auto and home insurance. Belongingness and love needs, I use NFC on my phone to do digital<br \/>payments for activities like movies or mini golf with my wife and kids. Esteem needs, I use<br \/>digital payments to pay for performance car parts and enhancements to video games to makes<br \/>my vehicle compete better or make me more successful in that video game. And finally for Self-<br \/>actualization needs, I\u2019m using digital payments to pay for my certification exams in<br \/>cybersecurity to make my record stand out better against other employment candidates. Digital<br \/>payment methods are so ubiquitous that people don\u2019t often see it as a technology that is helping<br \/>enhance their lives or enable them to achieve and satisfy their needs.<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am able to apply Maslows\u2019s Heirarchy of Needs to a single type of technology that I usepretty often, and I know others use far more frequently than myself. That technology is digitalpayment systems, whether it is Venmo, Cashapp, Paypal, Affirm, Applepay, Googlepay orSamsung Pay, depends on the situation, but all forms of digital payment&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/2024\/09\/23\/journal-4\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":29083,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":4},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kmcfarland-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}