{"id":783,"date":"2016-08-15T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=783"},"modified":"2016-08-14T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T20:37:42","slug":"i-got-the-best-letter-from-the-us-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/08\/i-got-the-best-letter-from-the-us-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"I got the best letter from the US Postal Service!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This arrived in my mailbox on Friday, August 12:<\/p>\n

\"2016-08-13<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lemme zoom in on the first graff:<\/p>\n

\"postalfiregraff\"<\/p>\n

And just one more time:<\/p>\n

\"postalfire\"<\/p>\n

A postal truck “experienced a fire.”<\/p>\n

My God, I love<\/strong><\/em> that! \u00a0We have sentient postal trucks, out there having new and interesting experiences, and yet they don’t have the damned sense not to play with fire. \u00a0It’s a self-aware 80,000 pound truck with the executive function of a toddler; O\u00a0brave new world that has such people\u00a0in’t!<\/em><\/p>\n

At any rate, this does<\/em> tend to explain the\u00a0errant check for several thousand dollars I’ve been waiting for. \u00a0*sighs*<\/em><\/strong> Guess I’ve gotta call a client later today.<\/p>\n

Anyway, for the curious, here’s my mail burning up last month:<\/p>\n

\"-077dab07e6c61c86\"<\/p>\n

(source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This arrived in my mailbox on Friday, August 12:   Lemme zoom in on the first graff: And just one more time: A postal truck “experienced a fire.” My God, I love that! \u00a0We have sentient postal trucks, out there having new and interesting experiences, and yet they don’t have the damned sense not to … Continue reading “I got the best letter from the US Postal Service!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[42,36,25],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}