{"id":11261,"date":"2015-05-19T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11261"},"modified":"2015-05-19T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T15:09:28","slug":"thanks-ted-landau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/19\/thanks-ted-landau\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Ted Landau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedlandau.com\/slantedviewpoint\/index.php\/archives\/2015\/1736\">Ted Landau<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.tedlandau.com\/slantedviewpoint\/index.php\/archives\/2015\/1736\">\n<p>The first time I was paid for writing about the Mac was in 1985 when A+ magazine published a reader&rsquo;s tip I submitted. It detailed how to use ResEdit to modify the Welcome to Macintosh message. For 300 words, I got paid $50. It was far from a momentous event. At the time, I didn&rsquo;t expect it to lead anywhere. My day job was still as a professor of psychology. But, as it turned out, the reader&rsquo;s tip was the spark that ignited a flame.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The result has been three decades of doing things I thoroughly enjoyed and getting paid for doing them. Who could ask for more?<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to today. I&rsquo;ve decided to call it quits and hang up my virtual pen. What I expect&nbsp;to be the last article I get paid to write was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2856118\/why-the-ipad-is-anything-but-doomed.html\">posted to Macworld<\/a> last December.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/macfixit-is-gone\/\">MacFixIt Is Gone<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Landau: The first time I was paid for writing about the Mac was in 1985 when A+ magazine published a reader&rsquo;s tip I submitted. It detailed how to use ResEdit to modify the Welcome to Macintosh message. For 300 words, I got paid $50. It was far from a momentous event. At the time, [&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":[295,30,993,1197],"class_list":["post-11261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macworld","tag-writing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261","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=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11269,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}