{"id":382,"date":"2005-12-27T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T09:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/brush-with-greatness\/"},"modified":"2005-12-27T01:23:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T09:23:50","slug":"brush-with-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/brush-with-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush with Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the story of a couple of programmers <a href=\"http:\/\/panic.com\/extras\/audionstory\/\" target=\"_blank\">meeting with bigwigs at Apple Computer<\/a> vividly reminded me my own brush with greatness at Apple Computer&#8230; A tale of <i>what might have been<\/i>. Although I didn&#8217;t meet with Steve Jobs myself, I was grateful to have met the head of the hardware division at Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The story is a bit lengthy (more like, REALLY lengthy). But it&#8217;s a nice read for geeks who want to kill time. I personally just picked the parts I wanted to read and skipped around.<\/p>\n<p>via [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gusmueller.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/25.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gus Mueller<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the story of a couple of programmers meeting with bigwigs at Apple Computer vividly reminded me my own brush with greatness at Apple Computer&#8230; A tale of what might have been. Although I didn&#8217;t meet with Steve Jobs myself, I was grateful to have met the head of the hardware division at Apple. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/brush-with-greatness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brush with Greatness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[8,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek-stuff","category-steve-jobs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-6a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}