{"id":230,"date":"2004-10-19T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T11:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/10\/19\/getting_there_is_not_half_the_fun\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T11:26:05","slug":"getting_there_is_not_half_the_fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/10\/19\/getting_there_is_not_half_the_fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting there is NOT half the fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here we are, my laptop and me, snug and warm in my office, just the two of us&#8230;<br \/>\nno, wait, who&#8217;s this? Why, it&#8217;s an external monitor!<br \/>\nThree weeks into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/archives\/000403.html\">the waiting game<\/a>, I gave in and retrieved my computer. The wretched video cable (NOT the new one) is sitting in my backpack, doing its impression of electronic intestinal disease. The part number is still a mystery, but at least now I have the part in hand &#8211; my plan is to march into Future Shop and wave the video cable in people&#8217;s faces until someone over there finally figures out which is his ass, and which is his elbow.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, the IT people at school have very kindly provided me with a reasonably good monitor, so at least I have an actual computer, right here in my office. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/archives\/000398.html\">skulking days<\/a> are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here we are, my laptop and me, snug and warm in my office, just the two of us&#8230; no, wait, who&#8217;s this? Why, it&#8217;s an external monitor! Three weeks into the waiting game, I gave in and retrieved my computer. The wretched video cable (NOT the new one) is sitting in my backpack, doing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/10\/19\/getting_there_is_not_half_the_fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting there is NOT half the fun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}