{"id":1827,"date":"2004-09-13T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2004-09-13T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T14:12:23","slug":"strange-but-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Strange but True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get this straight&#8230;  The big to-do in politics right now is that something written in Microsoft Word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1759,1644869,00.asp\">looks like<\/a> something written on a 30 year old typewriter?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m shocked.  <b>Shocked<\/b> to think that Microsoft might have ripped off a standard business font for their standard business software!  A company with Microsoft&#8217;s reputation for innovation, just <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.music.msn.com\/default.aspx\">blatantly ripping-off<\/a> something invented elsewhere&#8230; Unheard of!<\/p>\n<p>Egad&#8230; Next thing you&#8217;ll be telling me that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvorak-keyboard.com\/\">computer keyboard<\/a> we all know and love is based off of an design from the 1870&#8217;s!  Or that computer monitors use the <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/vic20.html\">same technology<\/a> as a television set!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get this straight&#8230; The big to-do in politics right now is that something written in Microsoft Word looks like something written on a 30 year old typewriter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}