{"id":681,"date":"2010-04-29T13:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2010-04-29T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:58:21","slug":"and_another_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"And another thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;everybody from the EFF to Jon Stewart is howling about mean ol&#8217; Apple sic&#8217;ing the San Mateo DA on the poor Gizmodo blogger who is a shining martyr to freedom of the press WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH WAHHHHHHMBULANCE. I will now puncture this self-righteous circle jerk with one word:<\/p>\n<p><i>Engadget.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Go back and look at that again. More specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/04\/17\/iphone-4g-is-this-it\/\">look at their archives.<\/a> Two days before Gizmodo&#8217;s big breaking story, they published more or less the same thing &#8211; with specs and pictures, no less. And what have we heard from Apple? Not a mumbling word. Not so much as a takedown notice for the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>So quit with your crocodile tears, people. If Jason Chen and Gawker Media don&#8217;t want to be treated like criminal suspects, <i>maybe they shouldn&#8217;t have committed a fucking crime.<\/i> Buy the ticket, take the ride. Pity level = NEGATIVE INFINITY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;everybody from the EFF to Jon Stewart is howling about mean ol&#8217; Apple sic&#8217;ing the San Mateo DA on the poor Gizmodo blogger who is a shining martyr to freedom of the press WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH WAHHHHHHMBULANCE. I will now puncture this self-righteous circle jerk with one word: Engadget. Go back and look &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And another thing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}