{"id":2420,"date":"2014-12-08T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2014-12-08T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T05:24:22","slug":"sapphire-galaxy-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2014\/12\/08\/sapphire-galaxy-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Sapphire, Galaxy, Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.07.a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2429\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.07.a-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"2014.12.07.a\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.08.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2433\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.08.b-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"2014.12.08.b\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>The holiday season has barely arrived, but I decided to treat myself to a few new gadgets to replace my aging hardware and gear. Our adventures in Orlais &amp; Ferelden became much smoother with a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapphiretech.com\/presentation\/product\/?cid=1&amp;gid=3&amp;sgid=1227&amp;pid=2456&amp;psn=&amp;lid=1&amp;leg=0\">Sapphire Radeon R9 280x graphics card<\/a>, which features three tandem 12mm fans that barely fit into my tower. Taking advantage of Black Friday specials, I also replaced my 4-year-old not-so-smart phone with a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/global\/microsite\/galaxys5\/\">Samsung Galaxy S5<\/a>. The new phone is not much of a looker, but certainly has the specs to keep my mobile experience lag-free at least for the near future. Meanwhile, we&#8217;re also joining in the holiday spirit with some Christmas decorations and a new tree from Emigh&#8217;s. Last week, the ALTA holiday dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianpearl2009.com\/\">Asian Pearl<\/a> featured a talk from a Buddhist monk which fortunately did not interfere with the full-on HK banquet-style meal. The food at my department holiday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecenterat2300.com\">party<\/a> was less interesting in comparison, but at least featured a DJ and raffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday season has barely arrived, but I decided to treat myself to a few new gadgets to replace my aging hardware and gear. Our adventures in Orlais &amp; Ferelden became much smoother with a new Sapphire Radeon R9 280x &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2014\/12\/08\/sapphire-galaxy-parties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}