{"id":692,"date":"2022-11-10T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=692"},"modified":"2022-11-14T21:59:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T02:59:02","slug":"impulse-buy-vortex-pc68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Impulse buy &#8211; Vortex PC68"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hell yes,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vortexgear.store\/products\/pc-66-68-key\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vortexgear.store\/products\/pc-66-68-key\" target=\"_blank\"> Vortex PC68<\/a> impulse buy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex1.png?resize=1008%2C756&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex1.png?w=1008&amp;ssl=1 1008w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex1.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex1.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex1.png?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Box said PC68 &#8211; but is a PC68<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex2.png?resize=1008%2C756&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex2.png?w=1008&amp;ssl=1 1008w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex2.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex2.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgreene.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vortex2.png?resize=624%2C468&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell yes, Vortex PC68 impulse buy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[129,135,130,136],"tags":[133,132,134,131,137],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-keyboard","category-retro","category-vortex-pc66","tag-harware","tag-keyboard","tag-retro","tag-toy","tag-vortex-pc66"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":696,"url":"https:\/\/www.mgreene.org\/?p=696","url_meta":{"origin":692,"position":0},"title":"Vortex PC66 (68 Key) Follow-up","author":"Mike","date":"November 15, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Vortex PC66 is a retro-ish PCjr keyboard. 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