{"id":59,"date":"2013-09-14T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2013-11-06T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:11:16","slug":"collecting-hobby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=59","title":{"rendered":"Chip Collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EPROMS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285 alignright\" alt=\"EPROMS2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EPROMS2-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EPROMS2-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/EPROMS2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yes, chip collecting is a hobby. I tell people it is the high tech equivalent of bottle cap collecting. I would estimate that there are about 200-300 crazy chip collectors (our C3s) world wide (i.e more than 1,000 chips in their collections). There are probably another 1,000-2,000 collectors with collections greater than 100 chips. I wouldn&#8217;t even hazard a guess to the number of causal collectors with 10 or more chips. Here are some of the questions you need to think about before you jump into chip collecting. Come on in the water&#8217;s fine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, chip collecting is a hobby. I tell people it is the high tech equivalent of bottle cap collecting. I would estimate that there are about 200-300 crazy chip collectors (our C3s) world wide (i.e more than 1,000 chips in their collections). There are probably another 1,000-2,000 collectors with collections greater than 100 chips. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=59\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}