{"id":8498,"date":"2010-11-24T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2010-11-24T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T17:19:36","slug":"christmas-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/11\/24\/christmas-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Well, duh!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If you are a parent with young children, do yourself a huge favor and read my earlier piece <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/04\/07\/the-unfair-advantage\/ target=_blank>The Unfair Advantage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then look at this chart from America&#8217;s taste-takers:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/iPad_Nielsen.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"897\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sure, those kids want bragging rights and video games, but, properly policed, technology confers an unfair advantage and you owe it to your kids.<\/p>\n<p><i>Disclosure:  I have significant AAPL exposure today (but maybe not tomorrow) but if each of the several thousand daily readers of this journal rushes out and buys 5 iPads, the impact on AAPL&#8217;s bottom line and stock price will be precisely zero.  Further, if you are coming here for stock advice you need to get a life, and a brain.  Long AAPL stock and call options.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, duh! If you are a parent with young children, do yourself a huge favor and read my earlier piece The Unfair Advantage. Then look at this chart from America&#8217;s taste-takers: Sure, those kids want bragging rights and video games, but, properly policed, technology confers an unfair advantage and you owe it to your kids. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/11\/24\/christmas-gifts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas gifts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}