{"id":299,"date":"2002-01-02T08:32:44","date_gmt":"2002-01-03T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/beyond-the-rumor-sites\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:17:30","slug":"beyond-the-rumor-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/beyond-the-rumor-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the rumor sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7110,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macworldexpo.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16647,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macosrumors.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311023305\\\/http:\\\/\\\/macosrumors.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:42:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:37:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:37:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16648,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.appleinsider.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313100138\\\/https:\\\/\\\/appleinsider.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:42:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:37:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:37:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16649,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thinksecret.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260220011859\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thinksecret.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:42:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:37:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:37:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6280,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308081928\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 23:56:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 07:54:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:45:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 06:12:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 19:12:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 03:00:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:07:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:07:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16650,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.appleturns.com\\\/scene\\\/?id=3480&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041226180735\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.appleturns.com:80\\\/scene\\\/?id=3480&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:42:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:42:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworldexpo.com\/\" title=\"MacWorld Expo\">MacWorld Expo SF<\/a> is coming up next week, which normally has the various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macosrumors.com\/\" title=\"MacOS Rumors\">Mac<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/\" title=\"Apple Insider\">rumor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinksecret.com\/\" title=\"Think Secret\">sites<\/a> all a-tizzy trying to predict what may or may not appear. This time, around, however, Apple &#8212; rather than staying their characteristically silent self &#8212; is doing the online equivalent of tossing a goldfish into a pirahna tank, through the posting of oh-so-subtle headlines like &#8216;Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond.&#8217; to their website. Now, now, shouldn&#8217;t tease the animals&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; AtAT&#8217;s take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\" title=\"Apple\">Apple<\/a>&#8216;s apparent plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleturns.com\/scene\/?id=3480\" title=\"AtAT: Restraint, My Aunt Fanny\">make their most rabidly loyal followers&#8217; heads implode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, around, however, Apple &#8212; rather than staying their characteristically silent self &#8212; is doing the online equivalent of tossing a goldfish into a pirahna tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[118,65],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}