{"id":585,"date":"2004-01-11T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=585"},"modified":"2004-01-11T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T23:19:19","slug":"assault-and-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/585","title":{"rendered":"Assault and batteries."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today the battery on my PowerBook G4 decided to quit taking a charge.  Argh.  This, right after I decided <i>not<\/i> to buy a new one after all.  And batteries for these babies are <i>a hundred and thirty bucks.<\/i>  I may just mentally take that $130 and put it towards the purchase of a new laptop.  Apple has a trade-in program where you can get $700 off the price of a new one if your machine is deemed worthy.  I don&#8217;t know if a malfunctioning battery is enough to put this poor old baby over the line, but $830 off the price of a laptop (kind of, allow me some desperate mental justification) seems vaguely doable.  Kind of.  The biggest drawback?  Their trade-in program takes <i>two to three weeks<\/i> to actually turn your machine around.  I can probably work off a desktop here, but that&#8217;s a long time to be inconvenienced that way.  Arg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today the battery on my PowerBook G4 decided to quit taking a charge. Argh. This, right after I decided not to buy a new one after all. And batteries for these babies are a hundred and thirty bucks. I may just mentally take that $130 and put it towards the purchase of a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-9r","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}