{"id":2026,"date":"2019-10-19T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.info\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2019-10-19T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:44:19","slug":"going-for-a-digital-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/19\/going-for-a-digital-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Going for a Digital Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A listener to my podcasts donated a really great laptop computer to me, without asking or even giving me a warning other than that I would be receiving a package from him. I then negotiated with him and swapped an item I had for sale for another computer, better in some ways and what I was looking for. I now have better computers than I have ever had, even though they are a few years old. Everything I ever wanted, from a company I would even want to work for if I could bear the altitude.<br \/><br \/>I have mostly set up one of them to replace my Lenovo ThinkPad T430, and put that one up for sale on eBay. It probably won&#8217;t sell right away, as I put the price a little on the high side and had bad pictures, also I should probably put Windows on it for a quicker sale.<br \/><br \/>In so many ways, my short podcasting career has been such a blessing. But it does constantly emphasize how poor I am compared to most other computer people. I need a good-paying job. Preferably in computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A listener to my podcasts donated a really great laptop computer to me, without asking or even giving me a warning other than that I would be receiving a package from him. I then negotiated with him and swapped an item I had for sale for another computer, better in some ways and what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}