{"id":30,"date":"2004-07-19T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/19\/taking-the-itunes-plunge\/"},"modified":"2004-07-19T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T03:46:18","slug":"taking-the-itunes-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/19\/taking-the-itunes-plunge","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Itunes Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I all started with a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countingcrows.com\/\">Counting Crows<\/a> website. They had post a link to their new<a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.msn.com\/artist\/?artist=100146\"> music video<\/a> for &#8220;Accidentally in Love&#8221; and after watching the video, I knew I wanted a copy of the song. The only problem, it was on the soundtrack for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00021PBEW\/javiersorg-20\" title=\"Shrek 2 Soundtrack\")\">Shrek 2<\/a> and I didn&#8217;t want to spend $14.00 for one song. A few years ago, this would have been a problem. Not today thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">Itunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> After installing the program and credit card in hand, I went shopping. It wasn&#8217;t hard to find the song, it was one of the top ten songs bought listed on the front page.  Setting up an account was easy, downloading the song was fast and within a few minutes I was listening to the song on my computer. Just paying $0.99 was great. There is just too many one hit wonders out there and I just want one song, not the whole CD. This is sure going to save alot of money.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I all started with a visit to the Counting Crows website. They had post a link to their new music video for &#8220;Accidentally in Love&#8221; and after watching the video, I knew I wanted a copy of the song. The only problem, it was on the soundtrack for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4urv-u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}