{"id":1652,"date":"2008-04-27T22:52:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T05:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2008-04-28T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T06:05:08","slug":"annoying-the-spam-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"Annoying the spam gods."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was gone most of the day and someone seems to have picked today to deluge me with spam that made it through my spam filter. I received lots of weird crap, but on the plus side I found out that my Buttberry is able to display spam in Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Today was my co-worker&#8217;s open house, and I never know what to bring. So last year I figured I should buy some flowers and this year I did the same. There are pluses to this. One is, I like flowers. Two is, I let the women at the local florists pick them out and they&#8217;re usually kind of cute. Third is, flowers are transitory and no one feels guilty about throwing them out if they don&#8217;t like them. It&#8217;s an all-around win.<\/p>\n<p>I told my high school counselor that I might want be a florist or cut hair and she told me to shut the hell up and finish my applications to MIT and Caltech. It&#8217;s probably all for the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was gone most of the day and someone seems to have picked today to deluge me with spam that made it through my spam filter. I received lots of weird crap, but on the plus side I found out that my Buttberry is able to display spam in Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Today was my co-worker&#8217;s open house, and I never know what to bring. So last year I figured I should buy some flowers and this year I did the same. There are pluses to this. One is, I like flowers. Two is, I let the women at the local florists pick them out and they&#8217;re usually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Annoying the spam gods.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","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=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}