{"id":213,"date":"2007-06-08T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T10:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/MyBadgeHolderBrokeAndMyXboxDied.aspx"},"modified":"2007-06-08T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T10:09:59","slug":"my-badge-holder-broke-and-my-xbox-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/my-badge-holder-broke-and-my-xbox-died\/","title":{"rendered":"My badge holder broke and my Xbox died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds kinda like a country song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.little.org\/photos\/160688813-S.jpg\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.little.org\/photos\/160688815-S.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>Well, it happened&#8230; my decision to not buy an extended warranty on a first revision of a gaming console bit me in the tookus.&nbsp; You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have learned from my experience with my first Xbox (I bought the 2 year warranty&#8230; and the box was replaced twice for free).&nbsp; But, alas, no, I didn&#8217;t and I&#8217;m now left with a $300 doorstop.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinachow.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/another-one-bites-dust.html\">Dick and Trina lost a couple units<\/a> I could smell the storm coming&#8230; but at over a year past purchase date I knew it was way too late.&nbsp; It crashed a few times in the past month (video froze while using it as a Media Center Extender) and yesterday we got <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/907534\">the red ring of death<\/a>.&nbsp; Since we&#8217;re in&nbsp;Ireland now it would cost a chunk of change for the round trip to the US and back for repairs&#8230; it&#8217;s only about $50&nbsp;cheaper to buy a new box here (with warranty) and we can get it right away.&nbsp; Oh well&#8230; off to buy a European Xbox 360&#8230; I wonder if it will have a sexy accent like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000367\/\">G\u00e9rard Depardieu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering&#8230; my badge holder isn&#8217;t under warranty either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds kinda like a country song&#8230; &nbsp; Well, it happened&#8230; my decision to not buy an extended warranty on a first revision of a gaming console bit me in the tookus.&nbsp; You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have learned from my experience with my first Xbox (I bought the 2 year warranty&#8230; and the box was replaced twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlevideo-games","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}