{"id":204,"date":"2002-02-26T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-26T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2002-02-26T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-26T20:34:00","slug":"204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Okay, now the spammers are just trying to confuse me. &#8220;Mike,&#8221; writes the nonexistent alancrooks@ns1.ehost2102.com, &#8220;Thanks again for lunch it was great! Best regards, Steve&#8221;. Um&#8230;right. Frankly, I think I liked it better when they were trying to sell me something.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Then again, even Amazon, who I <em>know<\/em> is trying to sell me something, is starting to sound a lot like spam and can&#8217;t even bother to get their details straight. &#8220;Your birthday is right around the corner &#8211;&#8221; they tell me, &#8220;March 28, to be exact.&#8221;  Um, no&#8230;it&#8217;s on the 26th actually. Has been for years. Says so right on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/wishlist\/2FTKV78AKJHYQ\/ref=wl_em_to\/103-3370272-6657410?add-fav=1\">wishlist<\/a> you&#8217;re asking me to update. <em>Why<\/em> exaclty you thought I would want to add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000IZQY\/ref%3Dwl%5Frm%5Fbdwo%5Fit3\/103-3370272-6657410\">this<\/a>, I don&#8217;t know. But why don&#8217;t you and my good friend Steve discuss it over lunch?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, now the spammers are just trying to confuse me. &#8220;Mike,&#8221; writes the nonexistent alancrooks@ns1.ehost2102.com, &#8220;Thanks again for lunch it was great! Best regards, Steve&#8221;. Um&#8230;right. Frankly, I think I liked it better when they were trying to sell me something. Then again, even Amazon, who I know is trying to sell me something, is &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=204\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}