{"id":127,"date":"2004-01-28T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-01-28T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T03:37:00","slug":"easy-or-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Easy or hard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes things are startlingly simple. I wanted to get rid of an old, dead TV, so I drove it to a recycler and they took it for $20. In fact, I just had to drive into a warehouse and the kid grabbed it out of the back seat. That was easy. Actually getting the TV into the back seat was a bit more tricky.<\/p>\n

So why was it so hard to (try to) get a free tape measure?<\/p>\n

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I got this coupon with the new hot water tank. I waited while they looked all over the store for the free tape measures and they finally told me there weren’t any to be had. Off I go. Thanks for your money, go away. I wasn’t the only one today. They told me a woman had come in this morning and they turned her away too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes things are startlingly simple. I wanted to get rid of an old, dead TV, so I drove it to a recycler and they took it for $20. In fact, I just had to drive into a warehouse and the kid grabbed it out of the back seat. That was easy. Actually getting the TV into the back seat was a bit more tricky. So why was it so hard to (try to) get a free tape measure? I got this coupon with the new hot water tank. I waited while they looked all over the store for the free tape measures and they finally told me there weren’t any … Continue reading Easy or hard?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}