{"id":976,"date":"2010-02-04T11:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2010-02-05T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:05:30","slug":"how-did-we-ever-put-up-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"how did we ever put up with this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped in to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bestbuy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Best Buy<\/a><\/strong>. yesterday to pick up tax software and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">STO<\/a><\/strong>. I decided to go check out what music they had. I am not a fan of downloading music from the net. I have no problem with iTunes\/Amazon, etc&#8230; I have a problem with the crappy quality they sell you. I prefer to by the album (usually a few bucks cheaper) and rip it at 256k or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was browsing through the inventory and finding it very frustrating trying to find anything interesting in the mass quantities of fluff. I realized I was trying to search for titles and artists using a search engine that didn&#8217;t exist. Nothing was indexed except by artist. If I didn&#8217;t know the name of the artist, it would take me forever to find anything.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980&#8217;s we used to walk into &#8220;Assorted Vinyl&#8221;, &#8220;Blockbuster Music&#8221;, or &lt;insert your favorite music store here&gt; and spend 30 minutes or longer just browsing the selections. Somewhere along the way of online music we have lost patience with browsing. I certainly do not consider myself a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hunter-gatherer\" target=\"_blank\">gatherer<\/a><\/strong> but I used to spend time browsing. Somewhere along the way, we have lost the patience to stand in one place and browse through inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped in to Best Buy. yesterday to pick up tax software and STO. I decided to go check out what music they had. I am not a fan of downloading music from the net. I have no problem with iTunes\/Amazon, etc&#8230; I have a problem with the crappy quality they sell you. I prefer [&hellip;]<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pensieve"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}