{"id":275,"date":"2003-02-13T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=275"},"modified":"2003-02-13T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-13T12:15:00","slug":"modern-technology-sheeeesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/275-modern-technology-sheeeesh","title":{"rendered":"Modern Technology? Sheeeesh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I should learn to <b>keep my big mouth shut<\/b>? It seems that every time I open up my trap to say something about something that&#8217;s going on in my life, something subsequently happens to royally fuck things up. Usually, it&#8217;s a situation of who I am or am not dating, or who I do or do not want to fuck, or who I am or am not fucking.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&#8217;s <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/talkread.bml?journal=xooz2&#038;itemid=67906\">my new turntable<\/a> that went haywire on me! On the weekend, I was playing an old record, and when I flipped it to Side 2 (remember vinyl was a DSSD [double-sided, single-density] medium!) and turned it on, it soun&#8230;ded a l&#8230;ittle&#8230; fun&#8230;ny&#8230; and wasn&#8230;&#8217;t pla&#8230;ying at&#8230; the co&#8230;rrec&#8230;t spe&#8230;ed!<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, since it was <b>only a week old<\/b>, I took it back to the place I bought it, and exchanged it for a new one. I&#8217;ve assembled it, but because of everything that&#8217;s been going on this week, I haven&#8217;t had a chance to check it out yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I should learn to keep my big mouth shut? It seems that every time I open up my trap to say something about something that&#8217;s going on in my life, something subsequently happens to royally fuck things up. Usually, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/275-modern-technology-sheeeesh\">Continue reading <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-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}