{"id":1251,"date":"2009-07-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephyrusanemoi.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:30:06","slug":"an-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/an-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"An announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me apologize for my hiatus. The reason for it is the very announcement I will be making during this post. Before that though, I bring you a warning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been said in the past that I talk far too much about the iPhone on my blog. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m very passionate about the device and the apps that are available for it. Those of you that don&#8217;t yet own one, I&#8217;m hoping my words will push you over the EDGE (see what I did there?).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m telling you this, because you&#8217;re about to be bombarded with a lot of technical info, some about the iPhone, some about various other geek-related things. But before I do that, I wanted to make an announcement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1253\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/an-announcement\/web\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/web.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FE340,X855,C560&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1245217172&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Liam Dean Cash\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/web.jpg?fit=676%2C901&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-1253 aligncenter\" title=\"Liam Dean Cash\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/web.jpg?resize=676%2C901\" alt=\"Liam Dean Cash\" width=\"676\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/web.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/web.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Liam Dean Cash<br \/>\nwas born on June 16th, 2009<br \/>\nat 9:01 pm<br \/>\nHe weighed 8 lbs 3.6 oz and was 20.5 inches long<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is what he looks like now:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wr.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1255\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/an-announcement\/wr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wr.jpeg?fit=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1247102826&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Liam at 3 weeks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wr.jpeg?fit=600%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-1255 aligncenter\" title=\"Liam at 3 weeks\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wr.jpeg?resize=600%2C800\" alt=\"Liam at 3 weeks\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wr.jpeg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wr.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Isn&#8217;t he adorable?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">End of line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me apologize for my hiatus. The reason for it is the very announcement I will be making during this post. Before that though, I bring you a warning. It&#8217;s been said in the past that I talk far too much about the iPhone on my blog. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m very passionate about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-site-news","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2355,"url":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/the-new-ipad-iphoto-garageband-and-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1251,"position":0},"title":"The new iPad, iPhoto, GarageBand, and You!","author":"Jared Cash","date":"March 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, Apple monopolized the tech news circuit (and, lets face it, much of the news as a whole) with their special event to announce the new iPad. 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