{"id":821,"date":"2014-12-24T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=821"},"modified":"2014-12-24T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:44:00","slug":"the-start-up-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"The Start-Up Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During 12th grade, I read a book called &#8220;Stupid Mac Tricks.&#8221; One of the tricks in it was how to replace the Mac&#8217;s startup screen. As a joke, I made a graphic of a black-bordered white box with a gray background. The text in the box read, &#8220;This computer will self-destruct in ten seconds. Thank you, Apple Computer Co.&#8221; I made this the startup screen for a computer in my high school&#8217;s computer lab.<\/p>\n<p>The next day an &#8220;out of order&#8221; sign was taped to the monitor. The lab attendants usually wrote the reason on the bottom edge of the paper, so I leaned in to read what had been written there. It said, &#8220;Will self-destruct.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 12th grade, I read a book called &#8220;Stupid Mac Tricks.&#8221; One of the tricks in it was how to replace the Mac&#8217;s startup screen. As a joke, I made a graphic of a black-bordered white box with a gray background. The text in the box read, &#8220;This computer will self-destruct in ten seconds. Thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[406,1186,1289],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-computer","tag-prank","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}