{"id":640,"date":"2011-04-08T22:35:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T04:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2012-03-13T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T02:48:34","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=640","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\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Red Sox \u00e2\u20ac\u201c They <em>finally<\/em> won, and against the Yankmees no less, but what a horrible start to the season. 1-6 does not make them look like contenders. The pitching has been abysmal (with the exception of the 1-0 loss where Lester was superb). John Farrell must be having a good laugh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> Warm Friday Afternoons \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Talk about therapy. I had a rough week ending with a depressing day, yet this afternoon was warm and sunny and I drove the 55 miles home with the top down on my Z4 and the tunes cranking. I arrived home in a very good mood. Best therapy in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/> Mac Minis &#8211; Very cool little devices. Hook one up to an HDTV via HDMI cable and and you have a very capable HD media center\/computer console. Throw in an HD webcam and you have an excellent video-phone to use for video calls to friends and relatives. The downside is the $650 price tag which does not include HDMI cable, keyboard, mouse, or the RAM needed to make it truly useful. If Apple would get off their high horse and charge reasonable prices for their cool devices, maybe they&#8217;d gain wider acceptance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the Week Red Sox \u00e2\u20ac\u201c They finally won, and against the Yankmees no less, but what a horrible start to the season. 1-6 does not make them look like contenders. The pitching has been abysmal (with the exception of the 1-0 loss where Lester was superb). John Farrell must be having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-gadgets","category-sports","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}