{"id":6854,"date":"2003-06-01T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/01\/6854\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:50:15","slug":"6854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/01\/6854\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Larry Ellison This Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get the billionaire who has everything, including a fighter jet and a special disposition to land planes at his rural airport at night?  How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchcreekboatsales.com\/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12\" target=\"new\">his own aircraft carrier<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll probably drop the $4.5 million on this WWII-era (but in use until recently by the Brazillian Navy) carrier.  He&#8217;ll expense it, of course, as part of his long term rearming so that Oracle can retake its rightful position as database market leader, by force if necessary, from IBM.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\" target=\"new\">\/.<\/a> for the pointer.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get the billionaire who has everything, including a fighter jet and a special disposition to land planes at his rural airport at night? How about his own aircraft carrier? He&#8217;ll probably drop the $4.5 million on this WWII-era (but in use until recently by the Brazillian Navy) carrier. He&#8217;ll expense it, of [&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-6854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854","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=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21208,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions\/21208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}