{"id":291,"date":"2006-05-23T21:32:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T21:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/apple-proposal\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T21:34:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T21:34:26","slug":"apple-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/apple-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"APPLE PROPOSAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Manhattan Apple Store that <a href=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/19\/apple-cubed\/\">I wrote about<\/a> a few days ago has an interesting time-lapse video on it&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/fifthavenue\/\">official site<\/a> showing the first 24 hours of the opening. I took a look to see if I could spot anybody I knew when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/appleproposal.jpg\">this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <a href=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/appleproposal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"appleproposal.jpg\" id=\"image290\" title=\"appleproposal.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/appleproposal.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a>He&#8217;s standing in front of the camera with a series of signs, the last of which reads &#8220;Will You Marry Me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What can I say but <em>Yes&#8230;!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This is one of those stories that could well take on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sethpalmer.com\/2006\/05\/apple_store_marriage_proposal.html\">epic internet proportions<\/a> for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/apple\/5am_%3A%3A_Inventive_dude_proposes_on_the_Apple_timelapse_\">a day or two<\/a>. If you watch <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/spoilers\/UschiLang.m4v\">the full video<\/a> closely, you will see that he arrived sometime after 5:00 AM, glanced at the camera, walked away, came back and sat down, wrote on his signs, and waited until there was not much traffic before making his unconventional proposal. It&#8217;s really very sweet. The three signs read:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Uschi Lang&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I Love You&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Will You Marry Me?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kudos for originality, Lovestruck Apple Guy. I hope Uschi says yes and that you have many happy years together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Manhattan Apple Store that I wrote about a few days ago has an interesting time-lapse video on it&#8217;s official site showing the first 24 hours of the opening. I took a look to see if I could spot anybody I knew when I saw this guy:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-4H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}