{"id":32398,"date":"2026-04-03T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=32398"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:37:33","slug":"50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2026\/04\/50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In May of 1997, I bought my first computer &#8211; an Apple Powerbook 145b with a black &amp; white screen. I used that computer to learn spreadsheets, 2D design, Tetris, photo editing, and so much generally about computers. I carted that laptop all over creation until the plastic gave out, and I bought another Mac. I&#8217;ve had an Apple laptop ever since &#8230; 11 different ones to be exact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Knowing Apple computers got me my college job.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Knowing Apple computers got me my first I.T. job too.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Knowing Apple computers got me the job that brought me to the Chicago area.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And knowing Apple&#8217;s products taught me flexibility in understanding computing platforms over my 25 year I.T. career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Apple celebrated 50 years this week. It&#8217;s kinda cool to still be proud of a company after 29 years; it&#8217;s a very weird long term friendship, but my life and career is so much better for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32400,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32398\/revisions\/32400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}