{"id":484,"date":"2009-04-04T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2009-04-04T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T01:01:21","slug":"5-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"$5 Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted a Mac for a while but I couldn&#8217;t justify spending much on one.  I finally looked on Ebay and found an old iMac located out in Oxnard and the bid was at $2.25.  I bid $2.50 and put in a max bid of $5.00.  I didn&#8217;t think there was any chance but a few days later I was told I won.  The guy who had it sent me a message asking if I was going to pick it up or did I want him to ship it.  I said I would drive out on Saturday and so today Betty and I did.<\/p>\n<p>He said it turned on but he didn&#8217;t have a mouse or keyboard so he didn&#8217;t know if it worked.  When I got it home I plugged in a mouse and turned it on.  It works like a champ.  I will need to get a keyboard but that should be around $5 too.  Not really sure what I&#8217;ll do with it but I&#8217;ve been wanting to relearn the Mac OS so this is perfect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0262-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"img_0262\" title=\"img_0262\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-485\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0263-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"img_0263\" title=\"img_0263\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-486\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0265.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0265-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"img_0265\" title=\"img_0265\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted a Mac for a while but I couldn&#8217;t justify spending much on one. I finally looked on Ebay and found an old iMac located out in Oxnard and the bid was at $2.25. I bid $2.50 and put in a max bid of $5.00. I didn&#8217;t think there was any chance but a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}