{"id":909,"date":"2005-07-22T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=909"},"modified":"2005-07-22T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T21:03:03","slug":"brand_loyalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Brand Loyalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20050722-5126.html\">Windows Vista<\/a>?  Is Microsoft trying to sell an operating system or a minivan?  i suppose it&#8217;s catchier than Windows XP, but it still sounds rather bland.  At least Apple uses cool-sounding animal names like Tiger and Panther for its OS.  Couldn&#8217;t M$ come up with something similar.  Like, I don&#8217;t know, Windows Platypus.  Or Windows Emu.  At least people would remember the brand.<br \/>\nI just returned from the store with copious amounts of alcohol for tomorrow&#8217;s party.  Since Wisconsin blood still runs in my veins, I had to buy a case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leinie.com\/\">Leinie&#8217;s<\/a>.  You know, I still have never gotten property drunk.  Do you think I&#8217;d be a mean drunk or a friendly-bordering-on-inappropriate drunk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Vista? Is Microsoft trying to sell an operating system or a minivan? i suppose it&#8217;s catchier than Windows XP, but it still sounds rather bland. At least Apple uses cool-sounding animal names like Tiger and Panther for its OS. Couldn&#8217;t M$ come up with something similar. Like, I don&#8217;t know, Windows Platypus. Or Windows <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=909' 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-909","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-eF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}