{"id":238,"date":"2005-01-12T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2005-01-12T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T17:17:18","slug":"apple-iproduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/apple-iproduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iProduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsive gadget-acquirer that I am, I nearly purchased the newly announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">Mac Mini<\/a> yesterday.  The reason I didn&#8217;t is because I couldn&#8217;t really fill in the blank in the sentence &#8220;I would use it for ______&#8221; with a good answer.  It&#8217;s to underpowered and unexpandable to be my primary machine.  Because it can&#8217;t take two network cards, I coudn&#8217;t turn it into a router.  Because it runs an Apple OS, I couldn&#8217;t run MythTV on it.  It&#8217;s just so damn pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Then I received an e-mail today that pretty much summarized why I wanted one: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/images\/iProduct.gif\">Apple iProduct<\/a> (it&#8217;s a joke).  I&#8217;m not really a huge Apple fan, but their products definitely draw this kind of appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsive gadget-acquirer that I am, I nearly purchased the newly announced Mac Mini yesterday. The reason I didn&#8217;t is because I couldn&#8217;t really fill in the blank in the sentence &#8220;I would use it for ______&#8221; with a good answer. It&#8217;s to underpowered and unexpandable to be my primary machine. Because it can&#8217;t take two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-3Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}