{"id":289,"date":"2004-10-19T19:02:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T09:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2004-10-19T19:02:29","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T09:02:29","slug":"ubuntu-linux-for-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/ubuntu-linux-for-my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Linux – For my Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m about to give Ubuntu Linux<\/a> to my mother. This’ll be a good usability test :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m about to give Ubuntu Linux to my mother. This’ll be a good usability test :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-4F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":272,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/ubuntu-linux\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":0},"title":"Ubuntu Linux","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-09-16","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubuntu Linux - Welcome to Ubuntu Linux Yes... the super secret debian project is out of the bag! 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