{"id":4863,"date":"2011-12-02T19:43:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T10:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/02\/stamps-and-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-12-03T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T06:44:26","slug":"stamps-and-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/02\/stamps-and-rocket-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamps and Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful retranscription of my conversation yesterday late at night at my local combini:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Bored Teenage Combini Employee<\/strong>: Hello and how may I help you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave<\/strong>: I&#8217;d like stamps. Do you sell stamps?<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.T.C.E.<\/strong>: We sure do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave<\/strong>: Brilliant. In that case could I get for 90 yen worth of stamp?<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.T.C.E.<\/strong>: Unfortunately we do not have that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave<\/strong>: But I thought you just said you sold stamps&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.T.C.E.<\/strong>: That we do!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave<\/strong>: Then how come you don&#8217;t have any?<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.T.C.E.<\/strong>: Oh, but we <em>do<\/em> have stamps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave<\/strong>: Then why can&#8217;t I get my 90 yen stamp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.T.C.E.<\/strong>: We only carry \u00a550, \u00a580 and \u00a510 stamps. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave<\/strong>: <em>facepalms<\/em>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful retranscription of my conversation yesterday late at night at my local combini: Bored Teenage Combini Employee: Hello and how may I help you? Dave: I&#8217;d like stamps. Do you sell stamps? B.T.C.E.: We sure do. Dave: Brilliant. In that case could I get for 90 yen worth of stamp? B.T.C.E.: Unfortunately we do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4865,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}