{"id":649,"date":"2007-03-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2007-03-11T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T17:00:00","slug":"why-must-you-mail-me-such-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Why must you mail me such things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">B A Start<\/span> household received an adver-mailing citing the following:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sham-rock Solid Savings!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have found it &#8212; after years of diligent work, American society has hit upon the platonic ideal of lame marketing. <\/p>\n<p>#1 &#8211; Shamrock needs no hyphen.  It&#8217;s a word.<br \/>#2 &#8211; That being stated, &#8220;shamrock solid&#8221; makes no sense, but &#8220;sham rock solid&#8221; implies falseness.  This is the point in the brainstorming session where I would have recommended scrapping the idea.  I feel for the poor Cassandra who presumably did so in my absence.<br \/>#3 &#8211; &#8220;Rock-solid savings&#8221; also makes little sense. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How were the savings at the store?&#8221; <br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Oh they were solid.  Rock-solid, I say without hyperbole.&#8221;  <\/span><br \/>&#8220;Dear me, that is solid.  Rather solid.  Perhaps I should go to the store.  As the savings are not fluid, I assume I will have a similar experience to yours.&#8221;<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;I should say so.  Quite solid, really.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All in all, just shameful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, the B A Start household received an adver-mailing citing the following: Sham-rock Solid Savings! We have found it &#8212; after years of diligent work, American society has hit upon the platonic ideal of lame marketing. #1 &#8211; Shamrock needs no hyphen. It&#8217;s a word.#2 &#8211; That being stated, &#8220;shamrock solid&#8221; makes no sense, [&hellip;]<\/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-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}