{"id":185437,"date":"2014-11-20T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/20\/if-sid-vicious-had-an-iphone-he-would-be-alive-today\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:21:00","slug":"if-sid-vicious-had-an-iphone-he-would-be-alive-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/20\/if-sid-vicious-had-an-iphone-he-would-be-alive-today\/","title":{"rendered":"If Sid Vicious Had an iPhone, He Would Be Alive Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><i>Roll Tape!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Because it appears that Mr. Vicious&#8217; band mate, John &#8220;Johnny Rotten&#8221; Lydon, has discovered a new mode of dysfunctional addictive behavior, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/sex-pistols-johnny-rotten-ipad-apps\">overdoing the Apple App store<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wasted \u2013 you\u2019re the first to know this \u2013 10,000 f\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011 pounds in the last two years on apps on my iPad. I got into <i>Game of Thrones<\/i>, <i>Game of War<\/i>, <i>Real Racing<\/i>, and I just wanted to up the ante. And like an idiot I didn\u2019t check myself. I\u2019ve been checked now. But there&#8217;s a kid in me, see? A bit of my childhood was taken from me and I\u2019m determined to bring it back. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that it beats doing heroine, as Sid and his former girlfriend Nancy Spungen&#8217;s all too brief lives demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>But still, app abuse?<\/p>\n<p>It boggles the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll Tape! Because it appears that Mr. Vicious&#8217; band mate, John &#8220;Johnny Rotten&#8221; Lydon, has discovered a new mode of dysfunctional addictive behavior, overdoing the Apple App store: I wasted \u2013 you\u2019re the first to know this \u2013 10,000 f\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011 pounds in the last two years on apps on my iPad. I got into Game &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1137,1104,1025,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-music","category-psychology","category-technology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}