{"id":170,"date":"2007-11-02T23:01:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2007-11-02T23:01:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T04:01:19","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Red Sox &#8211; Took it all. Who&#8217;da thunk it?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0DSL\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; What a pain the butt. Cable is a no-brainer to set up. DSL modems with built-in routers and firewalls are a royal pain. And a big thanks to SBC-Yahoo DSL for chasing all the plain vanilla DSL (read: simple) modems out of the stores. DSL will justifiably become extinct because it is such a pain. Good riddance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Chicago &#8211; Great city. So many really good restaurants all within walking distance of the river.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Chicago &#8211; Is there ever a moment when you don&#8217;t hear sirens? They need to rename the place The Siren City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Verizon Wireless Data &#8211; Who needs the $10\/day hotel wireless? Just hook the Verizon phone to the laptop and surf away. This post brought to you by Verizon Wireless.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Boston Celtics &#8211; I&#8217;m not a big (or even small) basketball fan, but I did see the Celts kick royal butt tonight. Maybe they will have a great season. Is a championship in three major sports too much to ask in one year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0Red Sox &#8211; Took it all. Who&#8217;da thunk it? \u00c2\u00a0DSL\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; What a pain the butt. Cable is a no-brainer to set up. DSL modems with built-in routers and firewalls are a royal pain. And a big thanks to SBC-Yahoo DSL for chasing all the plain vanilla DSL (read: simple) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,2,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-sports","category-stuff","category-techsecurity","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}