{"id":70,"date":"2011-07-20T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/cheaper-than-free\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:15:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:15:47","slug":"cheaper-than-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/cheaper-than-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper than free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a friend on Facebook (whom I&#8217;ve never met) announced his appreciation of the<br \/>\n<a title=\"Amon Tobin\" href=\"http:\/\/amontobinisam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Amon Tobin album<\/a><br \/>\n. As a fan, I thought I should give it a listen. A few seconds of ceaseless searching later, I&#8217;d abandoned all hope and bought it on Amazon. A few more seconds later I was listening to it on their &#8220;Cloud Player&#8221;. Congratulations Amazon, you have beaten the pirates by making it so easy to get music that people will pay for the privilege! The DRM advocates and &#8220;Copy Protected CD&#8221; monkeys have finally lost to the people who understand what it&#8217;s all about. That can&#8217;t be a bad thing can it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a friend on Facebook (whom I&#8217;ve never met) announced his appreciation of the new Amon Tobin album . As a fan, I thought I should give it a listen. A few seconds of ceaseless searching later, I&#8217;d abandoned all hope and bought it on Amazon. A few more seconds later I was listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}