{"id":6762,"date":"2014-10-27T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2014-10-27T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:55:48","slug":"amazon-fire-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6762","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fire Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping with the everything-fire theme, Amazon announced their own Internet-ready TV HDMI dongle, the Fire Stick. Click the link to check out the simple remote control.<\/p>\n<p>Yes! Only six buttons and a click wheel. Now we&#8217;re taking!<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve ranted about before, the problem with modern TV is the primitive, overly-buttoned remote controls. Amazon gets it. Google gets it. Will Apple eventually get it?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and according to Droid-Life, the Fire Stick is currently on sale for only $19. The Nexus Player, which is Google&#8217;s Internet-ready TV dongle, is projected to retail for $99.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2014\/10\/27\/amazon-announces-the-39-fire-tv-stick-a-chromecast-competitor-temporarily-on-sale-for-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">Droid-Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Droid-Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}