{"id":1898,"date":"2009-09-25T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/25\/2009-9-25-old-things-html\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:47:00","slug":"2009-9-25-old-things-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/2009-9-25-old-things-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/iPod.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/iPod.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Technology killed the radio star...\" \/><\/a><br \/>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Jeep Grand Livingroom <a href=\"\/2009\/09\/breakdown-season.html\" target=\"_blank\">is kaput<\/a> at the moment, but that&#8217;s not the only piece of high technology that had surrendered over the last month. My old 4th generation iPod got cooked in the glovebox of the tiny racecar. When a hard drive says &#8220;whirr-click-whirr-click-whirr-click&#8221; you know it&#8217;s a goner. After my failed attempts at repairs on the Jeep, I broke in to the iPod, which should have been a terrible idea, but I threw a new hard drive and battery in the thing and it actually works now.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, be really careful with the headphone connector. Time taken ruining the tiny wires on the motherboard while straightening them will ruin your day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Why not get another iPod instead of shell out 2\/3 of that price for parts? Easy. The old one is the last iPod model that syncs over Firewire and it works with my old notebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Yes, the Jeep Grand Livingroom is kaput at the moment, but that&#8217;s not the only piece of high technology that had surrendered over the last month. My old 4th generation iPod got cooked in the glovebox of the tiny racecar. When a hard drive says &#8220;whirr-click-whirr-click-whirr-click&#8221; you know it&#8217;s a goner. After my failed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/2009-9-25-old-things-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Things&#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":[32],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","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=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}