{"id":1073,"date":"2009-01-09T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/09\/backhanded-compliment-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T03:16:00","slug":"backhanded-compliment-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/09\/backhanded-compliment-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Backhanded Compliment of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It takes about three days to get used to [the Kindle] &#8212; during which you wonder what chimp engineer designed it so every surface a normal human would use to hold the device is actually a button &#8212; but after that you can&#8217;t live without it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/ephemera-2009-2.html\">John Rogers<\/a>, co-creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001N4RAEQ\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Leverage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It takes about three days to get used to [the Kindle] &#8212; during which you wonder what chimp engineer designed it so every surface a normal human would use to hold the device is actually a button &#8212; but after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}