{"id":144,"date":"2002-12-28T00:42:21","date_gmt":"2002-12-28T00:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=144"},"modified":"2002-12-28T00:42:21","modified_gmt":"2002-12-28T00:42:21","slug":"goodbye-dear-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/28\/goodbye-dear-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Dear Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Rio MP3 player is no longer working. For almost two years, this great little gadget has been my music machine.<br \/>\nAbout a year ago, I got a letter from the company that makes the Rio, telling me they were going to be sending me a replacement power charger (for the rechargeable battery) because there were reports of people inadvertently sticking the power plug in the USB hole and frying the device. At the time, I remember thinking that someone would have to be an idiot to put the plug in the wrong hole. Today, I was that idiot. In my haste to plug in the charger as I rushed out to work, I ever so briefly put the power cord in the wrong end before realizing what I was doing. It wasn&#8217;t until later when I tried to listen to some tunes that I found my poor Rio now makes only a radio static-like buzzing sound.<br \/>\nI never did get that idiot-proof replacement power adapter they told me they were sending. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a liability issue here somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Rio MP3 player is no longer working. For almost two years, this great little gadget has been my music machine. About a year ago, I got a letter from the company that makes the Rio, telling me they were going to be sending me a replacement power charger (for the rechargeable battery) because there&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/28\/goodbye-dear-rio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodbye, Dear Rio<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech-the-net","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-2k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}