{"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":"<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":[],"categories":[2039],"tags":[6,14,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776"}],"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}]}}