{"id":3521,"date":"2010-03-15T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2010-03-15T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:17:46","slug":"fail-from-the-get-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Fail from the get-go."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy at work convinced me that some of the unique crap I have, like Japanese folding fans, might actually get some money on ebay. I looked and most of them go for very little money, but I&#8217;m willing to put them up there. I found a light and a tripod and I was all set to take some pictures but the battery in my digital camera was dead. Oh, well. They&#8217;ll be up soon enough and I hope I don&#8217;t lose money on them like I did on some of the books I sold on Amazon. I paid more for postage for some of my computer books than they paid me for them. That&#8217;s what I get for not paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that today was a day like any other. Commute to the big grey box, sit in a cubicle, and realize this is my life. At least it&#8217;s payday and I like my co-workers. It could be much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy at work convinced me that some of the unique crap I have, like Japanese folding fans, might actually get some money on ebay. I looked and most of them go for very little money, but I&#8217;m willing to put them up there. I found a light and a tripod and I was all set to take some pictures but the battery in my digital camera was dead. Oh, well. They&#8217;ll be up soon enough and I hope I don&#8217;t lose money on them like I did on some of the books I sold on Amazon. I paid more for postage for some of my computer books than they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fail from the get-go.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","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\/3521","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}