{"id":2699,"date":"2009-08-05T20:48:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T01:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2013-08-12T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T05:00:49","slug":"even-consumer-reports-thinks-were-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2009\/08\/05\/even-consumer-reports-thinks-were-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Even <i>Consumer Reports<\/i> thinks we&#8217;re awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few weeks ago, we received a flyer from <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> containing the usual samples of their writing to entice us into subscribing again. Tempting but probably not until we&#8217;re really serious about getting a new car or TV. Even then I&#8217;m a bit skeptical when it comes to them with wheels; the writers tend to like vehicles one would need to race in Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One thing I found amusing was a plug about electronics which made me feel giddy, elated and vindicated after spending over 10 years with AppleCare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2700\" title=\"cr-apple\" src=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cr-apple.jpg\" alt=\"cr-apple\" width=\"400\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;ve read CR for the last 20 years, this is a huge compliment from the magazine because they&#8217;ve traditionally given Apple products mediocre ratings due to price and (my favorite) the lack of expandability for the iMac; never mind it&#8217;s an all-in-one system, not a traditional PC tower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, this was a sweet little victory to counter those lameoid Laptop Hunter commercials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, we received a flyer from Consumer Reports containing the usual samples of their writing to entice us into subscribing again. Tempting but probably not until we&#8217;re really serious about getting a new car or TV. Even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2009\/08\/05\/even-consumer-reports-thinks-were-awesome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applecomputertech","category-sci-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}