{"id":337,"date":"2014-01-24T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-01-24T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T18:47:19","slug":"thirty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago today, the Macintosh computer was introduced. I was fortunate enough at the time to be working in an office whose management was willing to explore new ideas and they willingly purchased a couple of the first Macs off the assembly line. From the first time I sat down in front of one, I was hooked. I\u2019ll admit that compared to the other computers in our office, the thing was kind of weird looking, the screen was small and black and white. No hard disk drive. A funny looking thing called a \u201cmouse.\u201d It was kind of slow, but it worked just like I thought a computer should. It came close to speaking <em>my<\/em> language and didn\u2019t demand that I learn <em>its<\/em> language.<\/p>\n<p>So Apple fan or not, thirty years ago they set out to change the world and I\u2019d say by the looks of things, they did. Happy Birthday, Mac!<br \/>\n\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago today, the Macintosh computer was introduced. I was fortunate enough at the time to be working in an office whose management was willing to explore new ideas and they willingly purchased a couple of the first Macs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}