{"id":109420,"date":"2017-08-02T03:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T07:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109420"},"modified":"2017-08-02T03:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T07:17:51","slug":"wisconsin-company-holds-chip-party-to-microchip-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/02\/wisconsin-company-holds-chip-party-to-microchip-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin company holds &#8216;chip party&#8217; to microchip workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_108184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108184\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108184\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chip-300x300.png\" alt=\"Photo: Three Square Market, also known as 32M \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chip-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chip-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chip.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Three Square Market, also known as 32M<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\"><span style=\"background-color: white\">RIVER FALLS, Wis. \u2013 Employees of a Wisconsin\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white\">technology company who received a microchip implant in their hand say the experience was only a brief sting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">Three Square Market, also known as 32M, says 41 of its 85 employees agreed to be voluntarily microchipped during a \u201cchip party\u201d at company headquarters in River Falls on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">Melissa Timmins, vice-president of sales at 32M, says she was initially apprehensive but decided to try out the chip that will allow employees to open doors, log onto computers or buy breakroom snacks by simply waving their hand. Timmins hopes to eventually use it to get into her car or go shopping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;color: black\">Company leaders say this is the first U.S. appearance of technology\u00a0already available in Europe. Three Square Market paid for the $300 microchips.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIVER FALLS, Wis. \u2013 Employees of a Wisconsin\u00a0technology company who received a microchip implant in their hand say the experience &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4115,4615],"class_list":["post-109420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-microchip","tag-wisconsin","mauthors-jeff-baenen","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}