{"id":381,"date":"2010-01-29T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:14:18","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> In-car iPod &#8211; Got the aux input installed in the X5. Love having 200+ songs at my disposal in the car. Next up, the Z4.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Illinois politics &#8211; For years both sides have been making a mess out of this state&#8217;s economy. Now everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else. Pitiful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hdrsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photomatix Pro 3<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; Very cool HDR software. Stay tuned for pics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> The NFL &#8211; Do they really think they own the phrase &#8220;<a title=\"Story here.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/news\/Whoownswhodat-82841572.html\" target=\"_blank\">Who dat?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Internet forums -More than once I&#8217;ve been saved by info found on these various forums. The wiring diagram for the aux input in my X5 was wrong, so it didn&#8217;t work. But someone on <a title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xoutpost.com\/bmw-sav-forums\/x5-e53-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\">the X5 forum<\/a> had endured the same problem and had figured it out and posted the solution. Saved me a trip to the dealer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. In-car iPod &#8211; Got the aux input installed in the X5. Love having 200+ songs at my disposal in the car. Next up, the Z4. Illinois politics &#8211; For years both sides have been making a mess out of this state&#8217;s economy. Now everyone is pointing fingers at everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,17,16,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-gadgets","category-photography","category-rant","category-sports","category-techsecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}