{"id":10901,"date":"2015-03-28T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2015-11-10T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:54:04","slug":"ifo-apple-store-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/28\/ifo-apple-store-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"ifo Apple Store Shuts Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifoapplestore.com\/2015\/03\/27\/my-work-here-is-done\/\">Gary Allen<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imore.com\/ifo-apple-store-shuts-down-after-14-years\">Peter Cohen<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.ifoapplestore.com\/2015\/03\/27\/my-work-here-is-done\/\"><p>After following Apple retail for 14 years, I&rsquo;ve reached a happy ending, and am&nbsp;gracefully backing away from the crazy world of following the company and its stores. No more stories or analysis, or flying out to far-flung locations to join overnight crowds,waiting for the&nbsp;excitement of new store opening (NSO). I began this Web site as simply a way of celebrating the <em>fun<\/em> of grand openings and the close friendship of the people I met when I arrived in a new country or city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Update (2015-10-15): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.512pixels.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/gary-allen-passes-away\">Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.512pixels.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/gary-allen-passes-away\"><p>Gary died on Sunday after a battle with brain cancer. I\u2019ll miss Gary and his writing, and wish his wife, son and family all the best.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/local\/wp\/2015\/10\/15\/apples-biggest-fan-has-died\/\">Michael S. Rosenwald<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/local\/wp\/2015\/10\/15\/apples-biggest-fan-has-died\/\"><p>Allen, a retired EMS dispatcher, traveled around the world \u2014 obsessively and expensively \u2014 to be among the first in line at the company\u2019s new stores. He attended more than 140 openings, collecting all sorts of trivia. He could even tell you where Apple store tables are made (Utah; he stopped by the factory once to say thanks).<\/p>\r\n<p>The history of Apple\u2019s global conquest is stamped in Allen\u2019s passport.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Allen (via Peter Cohen): After following Apple retail for 14 years, I&rsquo;ve reached a happy ending, and am&nbsp;gracefully backing away from the crazy world of following the company and its stores. No more stories or analysis, or flying out to far-flung locations to join overnight crowds,waiting for the&nbsp;excitement of new store opening (NSO). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,58,96],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-appleretailstores","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12583,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions\/12583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}