{"id":5515,"date":"2014-04-10T23:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2014-04-10T23:16:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:16:43","slug":"looking-for-your-old-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/looking-for-your-old-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Your Old Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for an audio cord the other day and I am pretty sure I have one laying around somewhere.  I basically wanted to test out a connection from my monitor to my desktop speakers.  However, I couldn\u2019t find it immediately and one thing that crossed my mind was instead of looking around for it maybe I should just buy a new one.  I know many people would opt to do that and as a result this is usually how we end up with so many pairs of the same item.<\/p>\n<p>While I am usually pretty good in holding myself back in cases like this, I really needed to know if my setup would work or not for an upcoming project and so I ended up going to the dollar store and buying one for like $2.  The dirty feeling of spending money on something extra that you know must be laying around somewhere.  It\u2019s almost a sin that the thing is cheap too as I am sure if it costs like $1000 there is no way I would say may as well just get a new one.<\/p>\n<p>On a different note, I have no idea how dollar stores can call themselves that anymore either as it doesn\u2019t seem like anything inside is actually $1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for an audio cord the other day and I am pretty sure I have one laying around somewhere. I basically wanted to test out a connection from my monitor to my desktop speakers. However, I couldn\u2019t find it immediately and one thing that crossed my mind was instead of looking around for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4879,21,3562,4880],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-buying-extra","tag-money","tag-old-gear","tag-spares"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tablet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1qX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions\/5517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}