{"id":3636,"date":"2011-10-18T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2011-10-18T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T02:11:11","slug":"portrait-night-1018-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 10\/18 (Steve Jobs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s #PortraitNight subject is a the recently deceased Steve Jobs. I couldn&#8217;t really get on board the Apple bandwagon in its later years for various reasons&#8211;from philosophical objections to their business model to purely financial ones&#8211;but I wholly owe my current love of computer tinkering\/programming to my elementary school experiences teaching myself BASIC on an Apple IIc.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s drawing is a pretty half-assed sketchbook doodle, I&#8217;m afraid. Sorry folks. What can I say? It&#8217;s been a busy week. I&#8217;ll have something more polished for next week, I promise!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/steve_jobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3637\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3637\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/steve_jobs.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,955\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"steve_jobs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/steve_jobs.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3637\" title=\"steve_jobs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/steve_jobs-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/steve_jobs-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/steve_jobs.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Untitled-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3638\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3638\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Untitled-12.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"272,262\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Untitled-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Untitled-12.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3638\" title=\"Untitled-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Untitled-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my<a title=\"Ben Towle - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s #PortraitNight subject is a the recently deceased Steve Jobs. 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