{"id":1998,"date":"2008-08-29T21:05:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2008-08-29T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T00:05:55","slug":"span","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"Span"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e had a (brief) reunion earlier this week: Alfons joined us last weekend and left (surprisingly) a day earlier than we all expected: there was a slight misunderstanding in his flight schedule. Luckily, the airport isn&#8217;t too far of a drive.\n<\/p>\n<p>He was kind enough to give away his iPod Touch: it is now the main focus of all my attention, which has left my KDE based-computer in the cold because there&#8217;s no real way to access the thing without <em>jail-breaking<\/em> it. This is my main gripe against the iPod: it&#8217;s a locked-up platform. Fair enough: the thing works as it promises and there goes nothing above watching The Matrix for the umpteenth time on a (what is it) 4&#8243; screen. Additionally, there goes nothing above copying photos to the thing and having those in your pocket. Alfons also shared along his iPhone experiences (I didn&#8217;t bother asking him for his monthly charges) and I thought one of the best apps for it was the &#8216;Tim Hortons Finder&#8217;. Wait, no make that Shazam (which, I understand isn&#8217;t really free either).<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n<p>Now mind me while I&#8217;m going to watch the Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a (brief) reunion earlier this week: Alfons joined us last weekend and left (surprisingly) a day earlier than we all expected: there was a slight misunderstanding in his flight schedule. Luckily, the airport isn&#8217;t too far of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[337,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}