{"id":341,"date":"2006-03-04T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=341"},"modified":"2006-03-04T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T13:54:16","slug":"the-50-foot-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-50-foot-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50-Foot Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry blogs on <a href=\"http:\/\/jerryslezak.net\/scissors\/?p=161\">an amazing and inspiring story<\/a>. Human beings are such interesting animals. My favorite pull quote: &#8220;My first thought was to download the latest version of Winamp, which I downloaded at 255 k\/s \u00e2\u20ac\u201c less than five seconds! I was so happy; I think this was one of the most beautiful days of my life!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such joy from such an apparently small thing! And yet I&#8217;m reminded of the Christmas party at Fezziwig&#8217;s in Dicken&#8217;s &#8220;A Christmas Carol.&#8221; In its own way, even Winamp represents something potentially awe-inspiring about the human spirit and the human community. All depends on one&#8217;s readiness to share in another&#8217;s joy and determination. (And one&#8217;s addiction to music.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry blogs on an amazing and inspiring story. Human beings are such interesting animals. My favorite pull quote: &#8220;My first thought was to download the latest version of Winamp, which I downloaded at 255 k\/s \u00e2\u20ac\u201c less than five seconds! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-50-foot-tower\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-5v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}