{"id":6762,"date":"2010-04-03T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T17:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2010-04-03T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T17:40:29","slug":"ipad-mania-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6762","title":{"rendered":"iPad mania in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol took this picture of the line outside the Apple store last night. Yes, it was raining. Yes, someone brought a tent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iPadline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iPadline-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Line in Plao Alto waiting for iPad\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iPadline-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iPadline.png 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right after she took this photo, Carol saw Steve Jobs getting into a silver Mercedes without a license plate. She turned to some people near here, and said, &#8220;Was that really Steve Jobs?&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; they said. &#8220;His car didn&#8217;t have a license plate,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Steve Jobs doesn&#8217;t need a license plate,&#8221; one of them said, &#8220;he has the iPad.&#8221; &#8220;We need a life,&#8221; one of the others muttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol took this picture of the line outside the Apple store last night. Yes, it was raining. Yes, someone brought a tent. Right after she took this photo, Carol saw Steve Jobs getting into a silver Mercedes without a license plate. She turned to some people near here, and said, &#8220;Was that really Steve Jobs?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6765,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}