{"id":8395,"date":"2012-12-25T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:55:48","slug":"hes-dead-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2012\/12\/hes-dead-jim.html","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s dead, Jim&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 Requiscat in pace, dear laptop. You served me well these long years. But since you don\u2019t have a soul my mourning period will be brief. I\u2019m sure you understand. Finding your replacement is of the utmost importance. This thing I\u2019m typing on now, a fifteen year old netbook with an outdated vesion of IE, doesn\u2019t have spell check! The grammar nazis will eat me alive! So you see my delimma.  <\/p>\n<p>Ok, computer geeks. I need your help. What do you think of the Surface? I\u2019m desparate for computer advice so anything you throw at me right now would be greatly appreciated. I\u2019m technolgically illiterate. Or is it iliterate? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/12\/blue-screen-of-death2.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/12\/blue-screen-of-death2.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"blue-screen-of-death2\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8396\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 Requiscat in pace, dear laptop. You served me well these long years. 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