{"id":133,"date":"2006-09-11T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=133"},"modified":"2006-09-11T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T18:30:00","slug":"close-but-no-cigar-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/close-but-no-cigar-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Close but no cigar (yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/cf-734891.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/cf-726409.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Three weeks ago, I finally ordered a Sony ?100 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalkind.co.uk\">DigitalKind<\/a>.  At the time, the camera wasn&#8217;t in stock, but they promised they would deliver it by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>However, the end of August arrived, but the camera didn&#8217;t.  Byron from the company told me: <i>Unfortunately I can&#8217;t guarantee any of the dates, as these are ETA&#8217;s given<br \/>\nto us by the manufacturer.  It may be early, it may be on time, and it<br \/>\nmay of course be delayed again.  It&#8217;s an annoying lottery.  I could lie of course, but this is the reality.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I was impressed by his honesty, so I agreed to wait another two weeks.  Today the memory card arrived (see the photo for the specs) &ndash; I just hope that means I actually will receive my camera within a week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago, I finally ordered a Sony ?100 from DigitalKind. At the time, the camera wasn&#8217;t in stock, but they promised they would deliver it by the end of the month. However, the end of August arrived, but the camera didn&#8217;t. Byron from the company told me: Unfortunately I can&#8217;t guarantee any of the dates, as these are ETA&#8217;s given to us by the manufacturer. It may be early, it may be on time, and it may of course be delayed again. It&#8217;s an annoying lottery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}