{"id":4241,"date":"2013-04-15T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T00:12:15","slug":"the-end-of-a-mini-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4241","title":{"rendered":"The end of a mini-era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a column in The Canberra Times for fifteen years. Today is the last one. The paper is now owned by Fairfax, a company which seems to be trying to tighten its belt, so from now on the content I provided will be sourced from within the wider company.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of amusing. I took the opportunity to write a little about the changes in consumer tech over that time. The paper selected for the pull quote the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The future will, I&#8217;m sure, be interesting. But one thing I have learned this last 15 years is that while I&#8217;m good at explaining what is  , I am no better than anyone else at guessing what is to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And speaking of modern tech, I wrote and posted this from within  the waiting room at a dentist where my daughter is being treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a column in The Canberra Times for fifteen years. Today is the last one. The paper is now owned by Fairfax, a company which seems to be trying to tighten its belt, so from now on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=4241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}