{"id":11978,"date":"2010-02-22T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2010-02-23T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:04:26","slug":"a-wedding-and-a-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/22\/a-wedding-and-a-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"A wedding and a funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years or dutiful service my Treo cellphone died. An unexpected static shock shorted out the display.<\/p>\n<p>Technically Treo still worked, incoming calls worked&#8211;a testament to its smart construction and design&#8211;right up until the moment of activating my new love, the Baybeh 9700 ( Blackberry Bold 9700 ).<\/p>\n<p>After several days of relentless use, I must note that Baybeh 9700 is the finest Blackberry ever encountered. Though my main phone was the Treo, I&#8217;ve handled all sorts of devices in the course of duty at my day job. It&#8217;s light; it&#8217;s responsive and it just works&#8211;right out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Every weakness of the Blackberry in years past has been resolved. Configuring it to use any mail server and without paying for a Blackberry Enterprise Server license? Enter the email address and password and Baybeh does the rest. Low battery charge capacity? I can run this phone full out all day with all kinds of applications humming and it&#8217;s still over three quarters capacity. Poor camera resolution? 3.2 megapixels, bright flash and ways to override the automatic settings.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of the camera, behold my beloved Oedipus:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/buddha\/napper.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And so farewell, Treo. Hello Baybeh 9700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years or dutiful service my Treo cellphone died. An unexpected static shock shorted out the display. Technically Treo still worked, incoming calls worked&#8211;a testament to its smart construction and design&#8211;right up until the moment of activating my new love, the Baybeh 9700 ( Blackberry Bold 9700 ). After several days of relentless use, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11981,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions\/11981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}