{"id":3047,"date":"2011-10-17T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2011-10-17T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:00:33","slug":"im_a_sucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m A Sucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how I said that I was pretty happy with my iPhone 3GS and would likely hold off on upgrading? That didn&#8217;t stop me from joining the four million other tools who purchased a 4S over the weekend. It all started with some innocent browsing on Craigslist to check the resale value of my 3GS, which turned out to be more than I thought. Then I realized that an Apple Store was only a few minutes drive from downtown. You can figure out the rest. It only took me a few hours to sell my old phone for a cool $160, so this iPhone purchase actually cost less than my 3GS. <\/p>\n<p>And now my new phone is sitting on my desk, looking all sleek and polished. As I predicted, Siri can&#8217;t make heads or tails of my speech, but that&#8217;s okay. The screen is brilliant and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get some good use out of the improved camera. This will do quite nicely until the 5S comes along in a couple years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how I said that I was pretty happy with my iPhone 3GS and would likely hold off on upgrading? That didn&#8217;t stop me from joining the four million other tools who purchased a 4S over the weekend. It all started with some innocent browsing on Craigslist to check the resale value of my 3GS, <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3047' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-3047","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-N9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","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=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}