{"id":497,"date":"2006-03-30T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T02:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/30\/fundamental-differences\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T08:31:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T12:31:01","slug":"fundamental-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/30\/fundamental-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I can generalize this to all men and all women, but I&#8217;m sure that this will at least illustrate one of the fundamental differences between my wife and I.<\/p>\n<p>Were my wife to look at this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncrate.com\/men\/gear\/home-audio-speakers\/denon-avr5805-receiver-003743.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/03\/denon-avr-5805-rear.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"303\" alt=\"Denon AVR 5805\" title=\"Denon AVR 5805\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bet her reaction would be something along the lines of a cross between &#8220;Get that away from me!&#8221; and &#8220;My God, that looks needlessly complex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I look at that, feel my mouth begin to water, and start tryingto come up with some kind of rationalization for spending six thousand dollars (Yankee dollars), which I definitely don&#8217;t have, on a luxury item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#8217;m not sure I can generalize this to all men and all women, but I&#8217;m sure that this will at least illustrate one of the fundamental differences between my wife and I. Were my wife to look at this: I bet her reaction would be something along the lines of a cross between &#8220;Get that away from me!&#8221; and &#8220;My&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/30\/fundamental-differences\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-81","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}