{"id":216,"date":"2007-10-01T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/xbox-360-oct2007-christmas-present-from-kix\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T09:47:53","slug":"xbox-360-oct2007-christmas-present-from-kix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/xbox-360-oct2007-christmas-present-from-kix\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 &#8211; Oct\/2007 (Christmas present from Kix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Xbox 360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/Toys\/xbox360.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nOur original Xbox (4 &frac12; years old now) has become too flaky, games crash and DVDs skip. We needed a DVD player and it&#8217;d be a shame to lose all our games so buying a new XBox makes sense. Halo 3 took any doubt out of the decision. I do feel suckered into the slick Microsoft marketing trap but it does it&#8217;s job as an entertainment system so I don&#8217;t feel ripped off.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The online capabilities of the Xbox is pretty impressive, I downloaded a few demo&#8217;s but I was disappointed with the fact there is no movie rentals available &#8211; certainly a wasted opportunity for Microsoft (I hear they have them in the USA &#8211; what gives?). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/halo-3\/\">Halo 3<\/a> online works flawlessly.<\/p>\n<p>I put my original Xbox on Ebay &#8211; it got won with a bid of just &pound;12.50! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our original Xbox (4 &frac12; years old now) has become too flaky, games crash and DVDs skip. We needed a DVD player and it&#8217;d be a shame to lose all our games so buying a new XBox makes sense. Halo 3 took any doubt out of the decision. I do feel suckered into the slick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal","category-toy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}