{"id":11,"date":"2002-12-22T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2002-12-22T21:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/wordpress\/?p=11"},"modified":"2002-12-22T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2002-12-22T21:43:01","slug":"microsoft_picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/2002\/12\/22\/microsoft_picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft picks winner: not Susan :-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWell, Susan didn&#8217;t win. So, no new iMac for me. :-(. I do need a new Mac. Mine&#8217;s starting<br \/>\nto show its age: 3 years. Should anyone want to donate to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=p%2Fema%2Findex-outside\"><br \/>\nBenjamin Westafer Benevolent Society<\/a>, please feel free! ;-). I&#8217;m<br \/>\nglad that Nutcracker is over. I&#8217;m now working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scubadorag.com\"><br \/>\nwww.scubadorag.com<\/a>. Susan&#8217;s added a ton of new fabrics. So, I&#8217;m<br \/>\nbuy behind the computer all of the time. I&#8217;m also playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/eagames\/official\/007_nightfire\/home.jsp\">&#8220;Nightfire&#8221;<\/a>,<br \/>\nthe new James Bond game. I would argue that the song on the game kicks<br \/>\nthe ass of the movie track. I do wish the multiplayer was xbox live<br \/>\nenabled, but you can&#8217;t have everything.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas! Or<br \/>\nHappy Whatever! I hope that everyone is happy in general regardless<br \/>\nor your race, creed, ethnic origin, religious affiliation, non-religious<br \/>\naffiliation, sexual orientation, disability, cultural literacy, ad infinitum.<br \/>\nI hope I&#8217;m not leaving anyone out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Susan didn&#8217;t win. So, no new iMac for me. :-(. I do need a new Mac. Mine&#8217;s starting to show its age: 3 years. Should anyone want to donate to the Benjamin Westafer Benevolent Society, please feel free! ;-). I&#8217;m glad that Nutcracker is over. I&#8217;m now working on www.scubadorag.com. Susan&#8217;s added a ton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westafer.com\/b\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}