{"id":5179,"date":"2008-12-08T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T01:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:26:59","slug":"that-isnt-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/08\/that-isnt-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;that isn&#8217;t the question."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4731,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/B00141AYIC?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00141AYIC&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/B00141AYIC?ie=UTF8&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A couple weeks ago, while planning ahead for our expected Christmas purchases, I asked whether <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/11\/21\/to-blu-or-not-to-blu\/\" title=\"eclecticism: To Blu or Not To Blu?\">to Blu or not to Blue<\/a>. Turns out, contrary to the Bard&#8217;s already-mangled quote, that wasn&#8217;t the question. After some reviewing of finances and priorities, Prairie and I decided to stay in Standard Definition for the time being, and save our purchase of a fancy-schmancy new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00141AYIC?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=djwudicom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00141AYIC\" title=\"Amazon: Samsung LN32A450 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV\">HDTV set<\/a> for some as-yet undetermined future date.<\/p>\n<p>The really fun part of this decision was rejiggering our plans for presents. Such jigs have now been re&#8217;d, and after a day of shopping around our old haunts in Northgate (which not-so-coincidentally also involved visiting and lunching with Hope and Peter) and an evening of wrapping presents, we&#8217;ve got a big ol&#8217; pile o&#8217; presents under our tree!<\/p>\n<p>I did want to thank all of you who contributed thoughts and advice while I was researching the available options. Hopefully I won&#8217;t need to call on you again down the line when prices have dropped enough for us to feel comfortable diving into the HD pool with all you cool kids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some reviewing of finances and priorities, Prairie and I decided to stay in Standard Definition for the time being, and save our purchase of a fancy-schmancy new HDTV set for some as-yet undetermined future date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,193],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-prairie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","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=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}