{"id":21,"date":"2006-09-09T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2017-02-20T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:06:33","slug":"tuesday-february-12-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/tuesday-february-12-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, February 12, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, sans-serif\">One sometimes hears stories of jokes that have gone too far; I&#8217;ve just discovered a joke that doesn&#8217;t go far <em>enough<\/em>.  It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspcr.com\/\">American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, sans-serif\">This is something that could easily be elaborated upon, but so far there&#8217;s apparently just the one page; the graphics at the bottom are just graphics, not links. It would be so easy to write a FAQ, or cite examples of horrific cruelty to household appliances&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, sans-serif\">Ah, well.  Just another missed opportunity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>[Additional note, Sept. 9, 2006:\u00c2\u00a0 I see they&#8217;ve elaborated on the original.\u00c2\u00a0 Good!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One sometimes hears stories of jokes that have gone too far; I&#8217;ve just discovered a joke that doesn&#8217;t go far enough. It&#8217;s the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots. This is something that could easily be elaborated upon, but so far there&#8217;s apparently just the one page; the graphics at the bottom&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/tuesday-february-12-2002\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}