{"id":63,"date":"2008-01-26T22:27:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T02:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2008-01-27T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T20:17:23","slug":"welcome-to-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! Looks like another large pile of time has passed since I&#8217;ve posted. This monday will be week 3 into the new semester already. Time never ceases to move quickly. Christmas break was great. I got my &#8217;74 Arctic Cat running (engine pictured in previous post) and my little brother and I bombed around the fields near my parents&#8217; place. I was able to put some time into the water cooling setup for my new computer (post later) and have even had a few car problems (definite post later) since I arrived back in the UP.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with a final closing thought and picture. I&#8217;d say about 8 months ago I was trying to figure out what company&#8217;s logo was the guy, sitting in his chair and being blown away by his stereo system. It&#8217;s an old logo, and it was really bothering me that I couldn&#8217;t figure it out. Well today I was burning a CD in my computer, and happened to notice the logo on the blank media! Sure enough, it&#8217;s the maxell logo and is commonly referred to as &#8216;Blown away&#8217; or &#8216;Blow away guy.&#8217; Man that&#8217;s a great logo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-DP89iMe0BY\">TV commercial it was marketed in<\/a>, for those of you with the bandwidth).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blown away\" title=\"Blown away\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/maxell.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! Looks like another large pile of time has passed since I&#8217;ve posted. This monday will be week 3 into the new semester already. Time never ceases to move quickly. Christmas break was great. I got my &#8217;74 Arctic Cat running (engine pictured in previous post) and my little brother and I bombed around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leapinggnome.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}