{"id":9,"date":"2005-06-12T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrzeebo.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/12\/6"},"modified":"2005-06-12T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-12T19:22:00","slug":"6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/2005\/06\/12\/6\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my Yamaha CD writer died.  It had been acting flaky lately&#8230; most of the time when you&#8217;d insert a blank CD, it wouldn&#8217;t recognize it as such, it would only see a regular CD-ROM.  Then it just stopped burning altogether, even when it <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">did<\/span> recognize a blank writable CD.  Luckily, I had purchased one of those (seemingly gimmicky!) extended warranties from Best Buy when I bought, and the warranty was going to expire this coming October.  Good timing! <\/p>\n<p>Best Buy let me take back the Yamaha burner and said I could take any burner up to $150 for free (since my burner cost $150 back when I bought it).  CD burners nowadays cost only around $50, so I was able to pick up a Plextor DVD burner instead.  This was actually quite good, I was hoping to upgrade to a DVD burner at some point in the future, since my back up sets now span 4 CDs.  So now I have a brand-new Plextor DVD burner, which cost me nothing (other than the $50 I paid for the extended warranty).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my Yamaha CD writer died. It had been acting flaky lately&#8230; most of the time when you&#8217;d insert a blank CD, it wouldn&#8217;t recognize it as such, it would only see a regular CD-ROM. Then it just stopped burning altogether, even when it did recognize a blank writable CD. Luckily, I had purchased one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedberg.com\/computers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}