{"id":222,"date":"2008-07-14T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/14\/my-hero\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T00:52:00","slug":"my-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/14\/my-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"My hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We take a break from our scheduled programme (more camping posts) to announce how wonderful Mr E Man is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/osoyoos-storm.html\">Remember<\/a> how I told you that my husband likes to meet my every need?<\/p>\n<p>Well, he surpassed himself this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Off he went to the mall to replace his broken phone. Back he came with a new Samsung flip phone, and a wish to demonstrate it to me. So he called my number&#8230; and a ringing noise came out of his bag. It took me a couple of seconds to interpret the look on his face, but eventually I started rummaging about to find out what was going on. And I found&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>an iPhone!<\/p>\n<p>Do I have the best husband in the world or what??!! Apparently he&#8217;d seen through my weeks and months of &#8220;well I don&#8217;t <span style=\"font-style: italic\">need <\/span>an iPhone&#8221; to the &#8220;but I really, really <span style=\"font-style: italic\">want<\/span> one&#8221; that lay beneath. And it&#8217;s a zero-guilt purchase for me, because it was a gift! So yes, it&#8217;s bad for the environment to buy new gadgets when the old one <span style=\"font-style: italic\">kinda <\/span>works OK, and I really shouldn&#8217;t be supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogers.com\/web\/resources\/service\/selectLanguageNonFlash.jsp?targetURL=%252Fweb%252FRogers.portal\">Rogers<\/a>, who&#8217;ve handled this whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/consumer\/story\/2008\/07\/10\/tech-iphoneindex.html?ref=rss\">horribly<\/a>. But I can&#8217;t possibly return this lovely surprise gift without offending my husband, whom I love dearly.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. I suppose I&#8217;d better keep it.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Okham, but when it comes to the Rogers boycott, iPhailed. I&#8217;d better leave that Facebook group you pointed me to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We take a break from our scheduled programme (more camping posts) to announce how wonderful Mr E Man is. Remember how I told you that my husband likes to meet my every need? Well, he surpassed himself this weekend. Off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/14\/my-hero\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}