{"id":216,"date":"2017-04-17T22:38:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=216"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:38:57","slug":"were-gonna-find-out-what-turns-on-your-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/17\/were-gonna-find-out-what-turns-on-your-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re gonna find out what turns on your lights."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today started like any other day, and ended much the same.<\/p>\n<p>I never could find an appropriately sized box to ship my video card, so I stopped by the post office on the way home. The cost of shipping always surprises me any time I need to mail something. The &#8220;free shipping&#8221; machine of online purchases makes it completely transparent, so I have no bearing on the actual value of post.<\/p>\n<p>After work, my parents wanted to go to KFC, but changed their minds when we got there and the buffet was closed. They did the exact same thing like a week ago. Monday through Thursday at 11-3, and then later hours on the weekend. There&#8217;s a sign.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t too hungry anyway, so I just came home. I spent way too much time fighting with a broken set of mini blinds. Why are these so expensive? Why am I wasting hours trying to tie up a broken string that still won&#8217;t really fix the blinds? What can I do to learn a sense of style so I can feel good about buying a whole new matching set for the house? Why is it like $400 per window to get smart blinds that integrate with the rest of my smart home?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 2017. Things were supposed to be better by now.<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve been searching for the daughter of the devil himself.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today started like any other day, and ended much the same. I never could find an appropriately sized box to ship my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}