{"id":4457,"date":"2011-03-14T23:38:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2011-03-14T23:38:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:38:20","slug":"repost-charlie-brooker-on-why-he-hates-apple-macintosh-computers-comment-is-free-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/14\/repost-charlie-brooker-on-why-he-hates-apple-macintosh-computers-comment-is-free-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: Charlie Brooker on why he hates Apple Macintosh computers &#124; Comment is free &#124; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laughed real hard when I was reading this.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultimately the campaign&#8217;s biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow &#8220;define themselves&#8221; with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that &#8220;says something&#8221; about your personality, don&#8217;t bother. You don&#8217;t have a personality. A mental illness, maybe &#8211; but not a personality.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2007\/feb\/05\/comment.media\">Charlie Brooker on why he hates Apple Macintosh computers | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laughed real hard when I was reading this. &nbsp; Ultimately the campaign&#8217;s biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow &#8220;define themselves&#8221; with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that &#8220;says something&#8221; about your personality, don&#8217;t bother. You don&#8217;t have a personality. A &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/14\/repost-charlie-brooker-on-why-he-hates-apple-macintosh-computers-comment-is-free-the-guardian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: Charlie Brooker on why he hates Apple Macintosh computers &#124; Comment is free &#124; The Guardian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}