{"id":541,"date":"2011-01-07T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2012-03-13T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T02:53:48","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the Week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Yo, Adrian! \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Adrian Beltre signed a 6-year, $96 million deal with the Texas Rangers this week. While I think the Rangers are <em>auf dem Holzweg<\/em>, I don&#8217;t begrudge Adrian his windfall. He should kiss his agent, though. In other good baseball news, Sox-killer Matt Garza has signed with the Cubbies, which means the Sox won&#8217;t be seeing much of him this coming year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Another year gone by. Tomorrow I hit 52. Time is sliding by faster and faster every year. Scary sometimes. On the other hand, I still feel young mentally, like I really haven&#8217;t hit my stride yet. Sometimes the physical aches and pains remind me that the freight train of antiquity is pulling into the station, but my general outlook is that I have a long way to go. My psyche is feeling like my body is committing treason. Strange.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> iPhone\/Verizon &#8211; Supposedly the iPhone is coming to Verizon in February. *If* it&#8217;s not too pricey and *if* the data plan is reasonable, it may be time to upgrade my trusty old RAZR. I really like my iPod touch, and having the phone and iPod combined in the iPhone would be a nice move. But I&#8217;m leery of Verizon&#8217;s penchant for gouging customers for their data plans with high demand equipment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Chuck and Lauren &#8211; My nephew got married to a (by all accounts) very special girl. &#8216;Bout time! I look forward to meeting her. Welcome to the family, Lauren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the Week Yo, Adrian! \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Adrian Beltre signed a 6-year, $96 million deal with the Texas Rangers this week. While I think the Rangers are auf dem Holzweg, I don&#8217;t begrudge Adrian his windfall. He should kiss his agent, though. In other good baseball news, Sox-killer Matt Garza has signed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-gadgets","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}