{"id":1007,"date":"2007-09-05T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2007-09-05T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T19:50:57","slug":"another-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/09\/05\/another-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER birthday!(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, Steve, Steve.  You vile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodtouch\/\">tempter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was three years ago tomorrow that my wife gave me one of the best gifts I&#8217;ve ever received, namely, my 4th generation iPod (20GB).  How many hours use have I gotten out of this thing since then?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=hours+in+a+year&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">Ten thousand<\/a>?  It might not be much of a stretch.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/1\/355554_dc621302f5.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/1\/355554_dc621302f5_m.jpg\" alt=\"ipod\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPod\">4th gen<\/a> replaced my trusty 2nd gen model (pictured here, at left), which then went to my (then) friend (now brother-in-law) Kevin.  He only had it a couple weeks before he dropped it somewhere and EOLed it the hard way.<\/p>\n<p>The new iPods today are nice.  WiFi?  Pretty sweet.  Touch screen?  Zoinks!  But $299 for <strong>8GB<\/strong>?  Mama Palmberg didn&#8217;t raise no fool.  First of all, the iPod needs a touch screen like a woman needs a man.  Or something.  And the wifi would actually be handy were I to use my new iPod as a wireless remote to run tunes on my Apple TV at home, but even <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> not insane enough to buy a $300 remote.  One fitty, maybe, but not $300.<\/p>\n<p>Still and all, it&#8217;s nice to know the new models are out.  Mine&#8217;s not going to last forever, after all.  Maybe by the time I need a new iPod there won&#8217;t <em>be <\/em>iPods anymore.  Perish the thought!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, Steve, Steve. You vile tempter. It was three years ago tomorrow that my wife gave me one of the best gifts I&#8217;ve ever received, namely, my 4th generation iPod (20GB). How many hours use have I gotten out of this thing since then? Ten thousand? It might not be much of a stretch. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-mac","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-gf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}