{"id":1175,"date":"2006-04-07T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2006-04-07T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T19:56:06","slug":"surely_this_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Surely This Is A Sign Of The Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Windows XP can run on Macs<\/A>, I’ve flirted with the idea of making the switch to one of those stylish white boxes<\/A>.  After some consideration, however, I’ve decided to maintain my allegiance to the Wintel empire.  I like the modularity of PCs and being able to pick and choose the components that will go in my rig.  And I have enough legacy software, especially games, to make me wary of investing in a new system that may or may not run those titles.  One never knows when one will be consumed with the desire to fire up Alpha Centauri<\/A> at 2 a.m. and nuke those whiny Lord’s Believers back to the Stone Age. <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Windows XP can run on Macs, I’ve flirted with the idea of making the switch to one of those stylish white boxes.  After some consideration, however, I’ve decided to maintain my allegiance to the Wintel empire.  I like the modularity of PCs and being able to pick and choose the components that will […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-iX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}