{"id":542,"date":"2007-06-29T12:55:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2007\/06\/29\/ive-always-wanted-to-do-something-like-this\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T18:55:55","slug":"ive-always-wanted-to-do-something-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2007\/06\/ive-always-wanted-to-do-something-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve always wanted to do something like this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 35th in line at Memorial City Mall to get a new iPhone.  I tried the Galleria first, which had about the same number of folks, but security wouldn&#8217;t let us use the floor power receptacles (said someone plugged into one one time and it caught fire, there was a lawsuit, &#38;c. &#38;c.)  We&#8217;ve got power, but no Wi-Fi (we&#8217;re in a cordon around the corner from the Apple Store, just out of range; I&#8217;ve been trying to talk them into putting in a base station to bridge the network over to us, but no luck yet.  In the meantime, am using the Treo to upload this.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/cgi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Photo_062907_002-2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/cgi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Photo_062907_002-2.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/cgi\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Photo_062907_002-2-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"133\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Photo_062907_002\" title=\"Photo_062907_002\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe family at the front of the line got here at 7pm last night.  The Apple Store employees have been coming by every so often handing out water and coffee; Chick-Fil-A came by and took orders.  Mostly late teems and early 20s in line, but a few of us older types and some families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 35th in line at Memorial City Mall to get a new iPhone. I tried the Galleria first, which had about the same number of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-8K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}