{"id":1623,"date":"2009-07-28T20:39:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2009-07-28T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:39:45","slug":"cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Randi <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/305549\/james-randi-offers-1-million-if-audiophiles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-better\">challenges<\/a> the audiophiles on the supposedly great speaker cables that retail at &#8230; holy shit &#8230; $7250?!?!<\/p>\n<p>I fought the cable battle myself.  When I bought my blu-ray player, Best Buy tried to sell me $100 HDMI cables.  I went to Amazon and bought one for thirty cents.  It works great.  And if it breaks, I can use the money I saved to buy 300 replacements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Randi challenges the audiophiles on the supposedly great speaker cables that retail at &#8230; holy shit &#8230; $7250?!?! I fought the cable battle myself. When I bought my blu-ray player, Best Buy tried to sell me $100 HDMI cables. I went to Amazon and bought one for thirty cents. It works great. And if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cables<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-cables","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}