{"id":408,"date":"2010-06-18T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:08:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:08:33","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-content\">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\" \/> Red Sox &#8211; Playing their best baseball of the season lately. They&#8217;ve closed the gap to 1st place in the AL East to one game.<\/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\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 State of Illinois economy &#8211; There&#8217;s no money to maintain backroads. The backroads here are tar and gravel and without new gravel, the tar is coming up in pools everywhere.This is just one symptom of a state that is circling the drain. And the idiots in the legislature still won&#8217;t vote for an income tax hike. Unbelievable.<\/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\" \/> Celtics &#8211; Nothing to be ashamed of in their loss to LA. They fought down to the wire. Kudos to them.<\/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\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 New PC &#8211; Got a new PC for the office. Quad Core processor, 8GB RAM, and 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate. After nearly 6 years with my old machine, this one seems impossibly fast.<\/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\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 New Toy &#8211; Picked up an iPod Touch the other day. Simply amazing what this thing can do. I&#8217;ve been having a ball with it all week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"iPod Touch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/iPod_Touch.jpg\" alt=\"iPod Touch\" width=\"293\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. Red Sox &#8211; Playing their best baseball of the season lately. They&#8217;ve closed the gap to 1st place in the AL East to one game. \u00c2\u00a0 State of Illinois economy &#8211; There&#8217;s no money to maintain backroads. The backroads here are tar and gravel and without new gravel, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-sports","category-techsecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}