{"id":40,"date":"2007-02-16T09:27:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"2007-02-16T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:27:29","slug":"the-easiest-way-to-win-a-war-is-to-say-youve-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/the-easiest-way-to-win-a-war-is-to-say-youve-won\/","title":{"rendered":"The easiest way to win a war is to say you&#039;ve won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move straight out of George Bush&#8221;s playbook, Sony has declared the format war between HD-DVD and Sony&#8221;s BluRay.  Apparently BluRay outsold HD-DVD 2 to 1 in January and are using the numbers to declare their platform to be the victor of this quick, Sumo-like clash of the titans.  I didn&#8221;t actually think of this story, or the analogy, both come from the irreverent technology news site &#8220;the Inquirer&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=37592\">http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=37592<\/a> .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerbrandwein.com\/images\/mission-accomplished.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move straight out of George Bush&#8221;s playbook, Sony has declared the format war between HD-DVD and Sony&#8221;s BluRay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,364],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-business","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}