{"id":14652,"date":"2011-10-24T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2011-10-24T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T15:28:43","slug":"the-reason-why-my-ipod-doesnt-have-an-off-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-reason-why-my-ipod-doesnt-have-an-off-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason why my iPod doesn\u2019t have an \u201coff\u201d switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Steve Jobs was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/10\/24\/steve-jobs-shocker-bill-gates-should-have-dropped-acid\/\" target=\"_blank\">afraid of dying<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ever since I&#8217;ve had cancer, I&#8217;ve been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it&#8217;s because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn&#8217;t just all disappear,&#8221; Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then he paused for a second and he said &#8216;yeah, but sometimes I think it&#8217;s just like an on-off switch. Click and you&#8217;re gone,&#8221; Isaacson said of Jobs. &#8220;He paused again, and he said: And that&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Steve Jobs was afraid of dying: &#8220;Ever since I&#8217;ve had cancer, I&#8217;ve been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it&#8217;s because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-reason-why-my-ipod-doesnt-have-an-off-switch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[419,1487],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}