{"id":3623,"date":"2007-02-28T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:37:11","slug":"when-101-years-old-you-reach-look-this-good-you-will-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/when-101-years-old-you-reach-look-this-good-you-will-not\/","title":{"rendered":"When 101 Years Old You Reach, Look This Good You Will Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone&#8217;s attempt at planned obsolescence has gone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=570406\" target=\"_new\">horribly, horribly wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six years before the RMS Titanic set sail on its doomed maiden voyage, a Great Lakes steamship was launched, and it&#8217;s still in operation.<\/p>\n<p>Now called St. Marys [sic] Challenger, it is the oldest ship still in service on the Great Lakes. This winter, the 101-year-old Challenger is docked in South Chicago while a maintenance crew from Milwaukee does minor repairs to get it ready for spring sailing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, wait; back in the old days, they built simple things that could run for a long time instead of complicated things that break right away.  Because in the distant past, quality was a virtue more important than mere profit to companies and a feature more important than any bell or whistle to customers who had attention spans measured in generations instead of seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone&#8217;s attempt at planned obsolescence has gone horribly, horribly wrong: Six years before the RMS Titanic set sail on its doomed maiden voyage, a Great Lakes steamship was launched, and it&#8217;s still in operation. Now called St. Marys [sic] Challenger, it is the oldest ship still in service on the Great Lakes. This winter, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18231,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/18231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}