{"id":185,"date":"2005-06-10T23:08:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T07:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/test\/2005\/06\/10\/dads-computer\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T22:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T05:04:40","slug":"dads-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/dads-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"dad&#8217;s computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moly. I never thought I would see the day that my dad would finally have a working computer. Up until just a few months ago, he had the SLOWEST machine known to man. I would run out of patience just waiting for the darn thing to start. And surfing the web was pretty much out of the question. Now the computer boots up in a matter of seconds and not minutes and I can actually go online (granted he&#8217;s still using a 56k modem) and not kill myself just waiting for the browser to load. It&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>So yay, I&#8217;m in LA. It was my first time flying down here on JetBlue. I&#8217;m not quite sure if I liked it or not. Sure, they have a TV at each seat but when the channels are &#8220;unavailable&#8221; for most of the trip due to &#8220;natural airplane movement&#8221; then I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s even worth it. I tried to watch an episode of <i>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/i> but gave up after the channel went dead for about the 5th time. At least they have a great variety of snack choices. It was pretty cool to have a chocolate biscotti instead of peanuts during the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. \ud83d\ude42 Off to bed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moly. I never thought I would see the day that my dad would finally have a working computer. Up until just a few months ago, he had the SLOWEST machine known to man. I would run out of patience &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/10\/dads-computer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[69,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9635,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/9635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}