{"id":3438,"date":"2023-07-15T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2023-07-15T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T21:19:03","slug":"an-era-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2023\/07\/15\/an-era-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"An era ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini-1024x768.png?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini.png?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini.png?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini.png?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newmini.png?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bought a new iMac when I retired. That was eight years ago. It was finally time to retire that machine and invest in something new. I bought a Mac mini and a 30-inch Samsung monitor and now am trying to recreate my collection of tools from scratch. The iMac will reside at our lake place for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got to the point where a few of the apps I wanted to run required the newest Mac OS. I am also discovering that some of the apps I used to run will not work on the newer machine. I am caught in between and this is the reality of progress. I will have to have to find new options. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new iMac when I retired. That was eight years ago. It was finally time to retire that machine and invest in something new. I bought a Mac mini and a 30-inch Samsung monitor and now am trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2023\/07\/15\/an-era-ends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}