{"id":25070,"date":"2016-04-27T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=25070"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:11:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:11:17","slug":"the-best-is-the-last-by-benedict-evans-ben-evans-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-best-is-the-last-by-benedict-evans-ben-evans-com","title":{"rendered":"The best is the last \u2014 By Benedict Evans | ben-evans.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1461189671033.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of this excursion into tech history is that a technology often produces its best results just when it\u2019s ready to be replaced \u2014 it\u2019s the best it\u2019s ever been, but it\u2019s also the best it could ever be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ben-evans.com\/benedictevans\/2016\/4\/20\/the-best-is-the-last\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe point of this excursion into tech history is that a technology often produces its best results just when it\u2019s ready to be replaced \u2014 it\u2019s the best it\u2019s ever been, but it\u2019s also the best it could ever be.\u201d Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,43,1523,1522,1879],"tags":[1969,2043,222],"class_list":["post-25070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-business","category-computing","category-innovation","category-virtual-reality","tag-apple","tag-smartphones","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42307,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25070\/revisions\/42307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}