{"id":11,"date":"2004-09-07T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2004-09-07T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:08:41","slug":"my-new-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/11","title":{"rendered":"My new iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning something very interesting happened. I felt bad. Though I wasn&#8217;t sure I should have. As I was hanging out in a computer lab at school, I overheard someone (who was yelling) say that he just bought a *brand new* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/app\/Apple%20iMac%20G5\">Apple iMac G5<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon.com<\/a> for $110. As fast as I could, I surfed on over to Amazon.com to see for myself if his claim was true. It turns out that it was, and just as I pressed the purchase button, they were out of stock. Now, he got the totally souped up one with a 20 inch screen, 1.8 gig CPU, 160 gig hard drive, 512 ram, etc. I decided I didn&#8217;t need all these features, so I tried for the one 2 steps down the ladder. Surprisingly, Amazon.com let me buy the computer for $110. I was dumbfounded. Who sells a computer that isn&#8217;t even out yet for $110? Then I started to feel really bad. I guess I shouldn&#8217;t care that I swindled Amazon. They&#8217;re a huge company who can afford to lose $1000 on an item. I&#8217;m a poor college student who would love to have a new iMac. Still, it didn&#8217;t feel good.<\/p>\n<p>As the day went on, my bad feelings were able to subside. This evening I got an email from Amazon saying that a mistake had been made, and they are unable to sell the computer at that price. Damn! Now I&#8217;m mad&#8230;despite the feeling that I felt bad this morning. The computer is now $1294&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wow&#8230;I&#8217;m tired&#8230;this was going to be a really good update.  Sorry to disappoint.  Must come back again later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning something very interesting happened. I felt bad. Though I wasn&#8217;t sure I should have. As I was hanging out in a computer lab at school, I overheard someone (who was yelling) say that he just bought a *brand new* Apple iMac G5 on Amazon.com for $110. As fast as I could, I surfed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}