{"id":41,"date":"2007-02-28T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-02-28T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T03:48:15","slug":"ipod-embargo-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"IPod Embargo working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">In a world of growing danger, hostility and terrorist threats it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rare that you can pick up the news and find something hopeful coming out of North Korea. Yet that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what many news agencies are reporting; Kim Jong Il\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ready to shut down the reactors and engage in a diplomatic exchange. Wonderful news indeed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">But how did we get here? Could it be the intricate multiparty talks, or perhaps it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a new found wisdom and understanding on the part of the North Korean government, hum\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just an example of how Apple is saving the world from nuclear winter; one IPod at a time!<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong><em>What???<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/kim_jong_ilipod.jpg\" title=\"Kim Jong Il and his Ipod\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/kim_jong_ilipod.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Jong Il and his Ipod\" \/><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Well, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flashback a few weeks. Some of you may recall that part of the strategy to get Mr. Il\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attention was to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/01\/28\/kim-jong-ils-ipod-wine-orders-to-get-denied-by-us\/\">cut off access to all kinds of high end luxuries<\/a>, Playstation 3\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, nice French wines, Italian sports cars, oh and IPods. At the time this struck me as a great idea, but I has not prepared for how quickly this approach would yield results!<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Love my 1337 Photoshopping skills!<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world of growing danger, hostility and terrorist threats it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rare that you can pick up the news and find something hopeful coming out of North Korea. Yet that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what many news agencies are reporting; Kim Jong Il\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ready to shut down the reactors and engage in a diplomatic exchange. Wonderful news indeed. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-business-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}