{"id":1508,"date":"2010-08-22T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/new-toy\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:15:51","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iphone4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iphone4.jpg?w=1140\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I have to admit that I haven&#8217;t been doing any quilting for the past few days. In case you&#8217;re now wondering why, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been playing with a new &#8220;toy&#8221;. \ud83d\ude09 My birthday was last month, and my gift was placed into my hands just this past Friday. It had to wait until our current cell phone contract had expired so we could switch to AT&amp;T and I could have an <b><i>iPhone<\/i><\/b>! I&#8217;m so excited, and I&#8217;ve been playing with it, getting all of my &#8220;stuff&#8221; switched over from my iPod Touch to the iPhone and then learning all about the features that the Touch didn&#8217;t have.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I have to say that it&#8217;s really not a toy, of course. I&#8217;ll be using it to stay in touch with other quilters, among other things. I just wish I knew someone else who had one of these like mine so I could try out FaceTime. But now I&#8217;m going to go work on making a couple of ringtones. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I haven&#8217;t been doing any quilting for the past few days. In case you&#8217;re now wondering why, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been playing with a new &#8220;toy&#8221;. \ud83d\ude09 My birthday was last month, and my gift was placed into my hands just this past Friday. It had to wait until our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"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":[303,316],"tags":[240,238],"class_list":{"0":"post-1508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"category-tech","9":"tag-computer","10":"tag-iphone","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iphone4.jpg?fit=136%2C254&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-ok","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2063,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/a-not-so-new-toy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1508,"position":0},"title":"A not-so-new toy","author":"Sandy","date":"May 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A few years ago I bought a tool and a pattern at Susan Cleveland's booth at the Houston show. 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