{"id":1910,"date":"2011-12-26T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2011-12-26T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T21:25:16","slug":"la-times-michael-hiltzik-looking-for-a-reason-to-love-the-ipad-latimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/12\/26\/la-times-michael-hiltzik-looking-for-a-reason-to-love-the-ipad-latimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Michael Hiltzik: Looking for a reason to love the iPad &#8211; latimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>There&#8217;s a link to my blog posting in the LA Times. Cool.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I am one of a &#8220;sizable cadre of bloggers&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; does that count as a citation, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/music\/la-fi-hiltzik-20111225,0,871615.column\">Michael Hiltzik: Looking for a reason to love the iPad &#8211; latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t &#8220;hate the iPad,&#8221; like <a href=\"..\/2011\/12\/04\/why-i-hate-my-ipad\/\">the sizable cadre of bloggers<\/a> given to proclaiming their distaste online. I&#8217;m merely indifferent to its supposed virtues, as I am to many other cultural phenomena I&#8217;m expected to find fascinating, like Ryan Seacrest and <a id=\"PECLB0000013298\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"Pippa Middleton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/human-interest\/pippa-middleton-PECLB0000013298.topic\">Pippa Middleton<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1910'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1910);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1910);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1910);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>There&#8217;s a link to my blog posting in the LA Times. Cool. Apparently I am one of a &#8220;sizable cadre of bloggers&#8221;&#8230; &#8211; does that count as a citation, I wonder? Michael Hiltzik: Looking for a reason to love the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/12\/26\/la-times-michael-hiltzik-looking-for-a-reason-to-love-the-ipad-latimes-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[14],"tags":[143,53],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-istuff","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-uO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2101,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/03\/26\/im-not-the-only-one-who-has-issues-with-the-ipad-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1910,"position":0},"title":"I&#8217;m not the only one who has issues with the iPad 3","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"List of iPad gripes goes on and on - latimes.com. 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