{"id":253,"date":"2008-03-21T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:32:52","slug":"a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/a-test\/","title":{"rendered":"A test&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick little test to see if my darling wife, Alyson, reads my blog. <\/p>\n<p>I just saw <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/016742.php\">this take<\/a> from Glenn Reynolds on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000V1OP5O\/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&#038;s=photo\">Flip<\/a> USB camcorder. The reviews look good, but at $150 it is outside the realm of my whim budget (although I saved a lot recently by making my own coffee at work&#8230;hmmm). <\/p>\n<p>Then I went to Target.com on a separate errand to find that they have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/gp\/detail.html\/ref=huc_ja_1_img\/602-1540820-7998269?ie=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B000ONFQ2K&#038;nodeID=&#038;merchantID=A1VC38T7YXB528\">60-minute white Flip<\/a> in stock and on sale for $99. And the Ultra model for $139. <\/p>\n<p>My parents were kind enough to buy us a nice DVD camcorder when Julia was born, but to be honest, I hate using it. The discs last 20 minutes and they&#8217;re a pain to upload &#8212; not to mention that the damn thing never seems to charge (usually my fault, of course). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to bite the bullet and get the Ultra, the orange one. Apologies in advance, Aly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick little test to see if my darling wife, Alyson, reads my blog. I just saw this take from Glenn Reynolds on the Flip USB camcorder. The reviews look good, but at $150 it is outside the realm of my whim budget (although I saved a lot recently by making my own coffee at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregs-reference","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-45","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}