{"id":1409,"date":"2008-08-01T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/this-is-when-i-realized-that-the-iphone-was-worth-it\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T04:15:10","slug":"this-is-when-i-realized-that-the-iphone-was-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/this-is-when-i-realized-that-the-iphone-was-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This is when i realized that the iphone was worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>As I wrote about a month ago, my Internet connection died for about a week, and then miraculously started working again the day before my tech appointment. I figured at that point that the issue was done. <\/p>\n<p>Until last night, when I got home, eager to go out for a bike ride before it got too late out, only to discover that I was having the same problem, where my (new) cable modem indicated that there was no signal coming into my apartment. So instead of a pleasant sunset ride along the Hudson river, I got 40 minutes on the phone with the cable company.  <\/p>\n<p>But this time there was a marked difference in my tone &#8211; I was practically zen about the whole thing. Completely understanding when the earliest weekend appointment wasn&#8217;t for a week and a half. <\/p>\n<p>And I chalk it up, in its entirety, to the fact that this little device (on which I&#8217;m writing this blog entry) has the best Internet capabilities of anything that&#8217;s not an &#8220;actual&#8221; computer that I&#8217;ve ever used. It makes my work-provided blackberry look like a commodore 64.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote about a month ago, my Internet connection died for about a week, and then miraculously started working again the day before my tech appointment. I figured at that point that the issue was done. Until last night, when I got home, eager to go out for a bike ride before it got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[],"tags":[23,30,3],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple","tag-bitching","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-mJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}