{"id":1319,"date":"2007-06-10T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2007-06-10T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T06:52:09","slug":"first-day-of-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"First day of vacation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I made it down to SF with no problems, but somehow I ended up driving 180 miles to get to a barbecue and back. So far, so good, though. I met a bunch of Apple people and they don&#8217;t seem much different than any other group of geeks I&#8217;ve met in the past. I heard some disparaging remarks about the google-ites who keep repeating &#8220;best and brightest&#8221; to prove something to themselves. I can&#8217;t say much because Megacorp is neither.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m supposed to get up early to hear Steve Jobs and his amazing keynote address. I&#8217;ve also heard that if you step on Steve&#8217;s shadow as an Apple employee, you get shown the door. Yeesh. Well, enough of that. Time for sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I made it down to SF with no problems, but somehow I ended up driving 180 miles to get to a barbecue and back. So far, so good, though. I met a bunch of Apple people and they don&#8217;t seem much different than any other group of geeks I&#8217;ve met in the past. I heard some disparaging remarks about the google-ites who keep repeating &#8220;best and brightest&#8221; to prove something to themselves. I can&#8217;t say much because Megacorp is neither. Tomorrow I&#8217;m supposed to get up early to hear Steve Jobs and his amazing keynote address. I&#8217;ve also heard that if you step on Steve&#8217;s shadow as an Apple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First day of vacation.<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}