{"id":116,"date":"2005-08-07T21:44:39","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2005-08-07T21:47:24","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T20:47:24","slug":"shopping-for-an-mp3-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Shopping for an MP3 player&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been introducing the in-laws to &#8220;Internet shopping&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I struggled to explain this one to them:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mp3 players\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\" border=\"2\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Aug2005\/amaz1.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;\u00a329.99, you say, nice price, fully featured, state-of-the-art, tell me more.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the first link took us here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mp3 player\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\" border=\"2\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Aug2005\/amaz2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the second link took us here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mp3 player\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\" border=\"2\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Aug2005\/amaz3.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two totally different prices, nothing like &#8220;Our price: \u00a329.99&#8221; at all.  <\/p>\n<p>Granted, these prices are a little more realistic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;for the in-laws, and look what Amazon did&#8230;their confidence (in Internet shopping) took a bashing when they saw this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}