{"id":116,"date":"2006-10-31T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsholmes31.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/31\/apple-opts-for-trick"},"modified":"2006-10-31T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T22:02:57","slug":"apple-opts-for-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/apple-opts-for-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Opts for &#039;Trick&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!6C72B8E39DF8C4E1!717\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p>I&#8217;m so freaking mad. I have to post again. Apple&#8217;s service is so terrible. I can&#8217;t believe they won&#8217;t send me my replacement until they get a notification from FedEx that I&#8217;ve sent this one back to them. It&#8217;s so innane. I mean, I could put a brick in a box and fedex it to them. This is the sort of shenanigans that really piss me off.<\/p>\n<p>What a freaking Halloween. I can&#8217;t believe they pulled this trick on me when I thought I was getting an awesome treat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so freaking mad. I have to post again. Apple&#8217;s service is so terrible. I can&#8217;t believe they won&#8217;t send me my replacement until they get a notification from FedEx that I&#8217;ve sent this one back to them. It&#8217;s so innane. I mean, I could put a brick in a box and fedex it to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/apple-opts-for-trick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple Opts for &#039;Trick&#039;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-1S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":115,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":0},"title":":@ !!!!!!!!!!!!!","author":"john","date":"October 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm so freaking pissed off. 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