{"id":7117,"date":"2019-05-22T17:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:24:04","slug":"apple-news-and-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7117","title":{"rendered":"Apple News and News+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/apple-news\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/v\/apple-news\/b\/images\/shared\/og__divs9jfd19aq_image.png?201905081340\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a month or so of being subscribed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/apple-news\/\">Apple News+<\/a>, today I dropped the subscription. It was one more subscription, and they add up. More importantly, it wasn&#8217;t giving me the news. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/16\/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-a-visual-guide-and-timeline\">Notre Dame was burning<\/a> Apple News+ was feeding me inane lifestyle stories. It didn&#8217;t seem to be able to gather and present current news, just glossy magazine articles. Perhaps it wasn&#8217;t meant to compete with Google News. Perhaps I wasn&#8217;t meant to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a month or so of being subscribed to Apple News+, today I dropped the subscription. It was one more subscription, and they add up. More importantly, it wasn&#8217;t giving me the news. When Notre Dame was burning Apple News+ was feeding me inane lifestyle stories. It didn&#8217;t seem to be able to gather and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple News and News+<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}