{"id":243,"date":"2008-07-02T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-07-02T07:29:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:29:42","slug":"what-were-we-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/243","title":{"rendered":"What were we thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was quick to <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/239\" target=\"_blank\">criticize Netflix<\/a> for their plans to eliminate user profiles, it is only appropriate that I acknowledge and congratulate them on their recent decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080630-score-one-for-the-little-guy-netflix-to-keep-profiles.html\" target=\"_blank\">undo their plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/netflix.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-244\" title=\"netflix\" src=\"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/netflix.png\" alt=\"Netflix is keeping profiles\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a bit of a laugh when I saw the email as the tone when you read between the lines is quite funny. Something like &#8220;yeah, it was a dumb idea. The guy who o.k&#8217;d it is now working at 7-Eleven.&#8221; Either way, it was smart of them to listen to their customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was quick to criticize Netflix for their plans to eliminate user profiles, it is only appropriate that I acknowledge and congratulate them on their recent decision to undo their plans. I got a bit of a laugh when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/243\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}