{"id":21916,"date":"2010-06-18T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=21916"},"modified":"2010-06-18T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:16:25","slug":"the-annual-early-adopter-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/the-annual-early-adopter-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annual Early Adopter Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that time again. Early adopter month. The month were us Apple types salivate over hands-on videos, OS features and eventually unboxings of that next magical device to come out of Cupertino, California. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Gawker&#8217;s @Gizmodo <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5565537\/what-its-like-to-own-an-apple-product\" target=\"_blank\">posted this comic<\/a>, originally created by The Oatmeal, on the whole process of an early Apple adopter .. and it described me so perfectly, I just had to share it with you guys. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_oatmealapplehead.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_oatmealapple1.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_oatmealapple2.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_oatmealapple3.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_oatmealapple4.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/500x_oatmealapplefoot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[via @Gizmodo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that time again. Early adopter month. The month were us Apple types salivate over hands-on videos, OS features and eventually unboxings of that next magical device to come out of Cupertino, California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,2028,16,17],"tags":[4,3351,3353,736,3354,3507,3501,2445,3502,3352],"class_list":["post-21916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-ipod","tag-apple","tag-california","tag-comic","tag-cupertino","tag-humor","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-4","tag-ipod","tag-the-oatmeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21927,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21916\/revisions\/21927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}