{"id":710,"date":"2005-07-06T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=710"},"modified":"2005-07-06T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T11:05:00","slug":"i-am-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"I am them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in StarbuXXX trying to eke another productive hour or two out of a pretty good day.<\/p>\n<p>A woman walked up and asked me how I liked &#8220;that there Apple computer.&#8221;  In a heartbeat, I was into a solid monolog of the virtues of Apple as compared with just about anything else.  The elegant lines, the simple setup, the raving, near fanatical devotion of the Apple community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve become an Apple slut, spouting their party line.  My God, my god&#8230;have I been looking in the wrong places for faith all this time?  Is it really that simple?<\/p>\n<p>Obey.  All must obey.  We are all unique.  We are all special.  And we all, every last one of us, thinks different.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, my campaign for world emperor now has it&#8217;s party:  &#8220;iParty&#8221;.  Think different, y&#8217;all.  Think different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in StarbuXXX trying to eke another productive hour or two out of a pretty good day.<\/p>\n<p>A woman walked up and asked me how I liked &#8220;that there Apple computer.&#8221; In a heartbeat, I was into a solid monolog of the virtues of Apple as compared with just about anything else. The elegant lines, <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=710\">I am them!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}