{"id":3776,"date":"2006-04-22T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/22\/fbipod\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:43:37","slug":"fbipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/22\/fbipod\/","title":{"rendered":"FBiPod?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6621,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\\\/cultofmac\\\/index.blog?entry_id=1462910&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\\\/cultofmac\\\/index.blog?entry_id=1462910&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6622,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.engadget.com\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/20\\\/bush-government-research-developed-ipod&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20191215091727\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.engadget.com\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/20\\\/bush-government-research-developed-ipod\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 07:34:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 06:56:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:08:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:08:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Who knew the government was <em>this<\/em> in tune with today&#8217;s marketplace?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Pres. George W. Bush, during a speech at Tuskegee University<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/cultofmac\/index.blog?entry_id=1462910\" title=\"Cult of Mac: Bush: Government Invented the iPod\">The Cult of Mac<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/04\/20\/bush-government-research-developed-ipod\/\" title=\"Engadget: Bush: government research developed iPod\">Engadget<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod.<\/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":[6,14,16],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-humor","tag-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}