{"id":2823,"date":"2007-12-10T18:47:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2007-12-10T18:47:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T02:47:48","slug":"2823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defectiveyeti.com\/archives\/002378.html\">Matthew Baldwin writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think vending machines are a race of parasitic, interstellar, robotic intelligence that has adapted to Earth by evolving a digestive system capable of metabolizing coins and excreting 2.5 oz. bags of Cheez-Its.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was reminded immediately of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/20\/japanese-women-could.html\">this vending-machine disguise<\/a> for Japanese women:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d by disguising herself as a vending machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, for one, welcome our new vending-machine overlords.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Baldwin writes: I think vending machines are a race of parasitic, interstellar, robotic intelligence that has adapted to Earth by evolving a digestive system capable of metabolizing coins and excreting 2.5 oz. bags of Cheez-Its. I was reminded immediately of this vending-machine disguise for Japanese women: Ms. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old experimental fashion designer, lifted &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2823\">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-2823","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\/2823"}],"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=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}