{"id":339,"date":"2004-11-22T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T06:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=339"},"modified":"2004-11-23T00:12:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T07:12:40","slug":"the-benefits-of-having-lazy-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of having lazy friends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Greg who is also very generous when paying for meals, is very lazy when it comes to rebate checks. And for some reason, his wife can&#8217;t be bothered to send them in either. So after watching them blow a few of them, I started telling him I&#8217;d mail them in for him. It costs 37 cents in postage and an envelope and I end up with his rebate checks. For some reason, he won&#8217;t take them back, either. I suppose he has his reasons. He hates the dumb rebate dance. I usually agree. Aladdin Systems stiffed me $50 for their Stuffit program and it&#8217;s always a pain to try to remember what you&#8217;re owed in rebates.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, maybe I can use the rebate money to buy the &#8220;The 10 Mistakes Most Men Make With Women&#8221; book that they keep advertising in my spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Greg who is also very generous when paying for meals, is very lazy when it comes to rebate checks. And for some reason, his wife can&#8217;t be bothered to send them in either. So after watching them blow a few of them, I started telling him I&#8217;d mail them in for him. It costs 37 cents in postage and an envelope and I end up with his rebate checks. For some reason, he won&#8217;t take them back, either. I suppose he has his reasons. He hates the dumb rebate dance. I usually agree. Aladdin Systems stiffed me $50 for their Stuffit program and it&#8217;s always a pain to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The benefits of having lazy friends.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","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\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}