{"id":1891,"date":"2009-08-12T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/12\/2009-8-12-two-big-birthdays-html\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:52:00","slug":"2009-8-12-two-big-birthdays-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/2009-8-12-two-big-birthdays-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Big Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/5150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/5150.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"I'm going mad just thinking about it.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1981, International Business Machines introduced their first PC, the IBM Model 5150. Information technology professionals may recognize the number 5150 to stand for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/5150_(Involuntary_psychiatric_hold)\" target=\"_blank\">involuntary psychiatric hold<\/a>, which allows qualified clinicians to involuntarily confine techs who have gone mad while working on IBM PCs.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/indy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/indy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"I'm dizzy.\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is also the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A place where people have been known to go around the bend.<\/p>\n<p>Stay sane, people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, On this day in 1981, International Business Machines introduced their first PC, the IBM Model 5150. Information technology professionals may recognize the number 5150 to stand for involuntary psychiatric hold, which allows qualified clinicians to involuntarily confine techs who have gone mad while working on IBM PCs. This is also the 100th anniversary of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/2009-8-12-two-big-birthdays-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Big Birthdays&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,32],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}