{"id":2355,"date":"2006-01-13T10:51:55","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T10:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2006-01-13T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T10:51:55","slug":"so_close_so_far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/so_close_so_far\/","title":{"rendered":"so close, so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/digicam\/0544-anglely.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"0544-anglely.jpg\" title=\"i've always liked the look of these condos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there was a period of about 36 hours where i thought i might actually get a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/imac\/\">intelimac<\/a>.  alas, the astounded chuckle when dad saw the price (before taxes) pretty much confirmed that my becoming a switcher on his dime was just a pipe dream.  just when i was getting all excited, instead of ambivalent about leaving the windows world behind, too.  le sigh.<br \/>\nit was fun ordering him a new computer online last night.  he was aghast when i suggested it and told him we&#8217;d use his credit card ON THE INTERNET!  but, he soldiered through it very well and in two weeks he&#8217;ll have a new athlon64 pc and 19&#8243; widescreen lcd monitor to read his email with.  again:  le sigh.<br \/>\ntonight, i&#8217;m going bowling.  <i>cosmic bowling<\/i>, actually.  i&#8217;m ridiculously excited about it, too.  even with all the <s>strangers<\/s> friends i haven&#8217;t met yet, i&#8217;m still really thrilled at the prospect.  bowling is one of those things you can do with people and everyone has a good time &#8217;cause you can be as wild and silly as you want.  i mean, really, you&#8217;re wearing communal shoes.  what&#8217;s not absurd about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there was a period of about 36 hours where i thought i might actually get a new intelimac. alas, the astounded chuckle when dad saw the price (before taxes) pretty much confirmed that my becoming a switcher on his dime was just a pipe dream. just when i was getting all excited, instead of ambivalent <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/so_close_so_far\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}