{"id":275,"date":"2008-07-02T21:34:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T04:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-07-03T00:15:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T07:15:58","slug":"missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/missed-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my 470 lecture today, I was making comment about MySpace.  To point out that I wasn&#8217;t a MySpace user, I said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since I&#8217;m neither a 14 year old nor a musician, I don&#8217;t have a MySpace account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moments later, I realized that what I should have said was<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since I&#8217;m neither a 14 year old, nor a musician, <em>nor a pedophile<\/em>, I don&#8217;t have a MySpace account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m very disappointed in myself.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3av_qRR_DWc\">George Carlin would be disappointed<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Now I&#8217;m stuck watching George Carlin on YouTube.  Best curse ever: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3M5Xm5RYTRY\">&#8220;Holy jumpin&#8217; fuckin&#8217; shitballs!&#8221;<\/a> [@0:53].  Also my favourite Carlin rant: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KBxzvSbGJ2w\">Airport Security<\/a> (which happened well before September 2001, and rings true even in our stupid, stupid post-911 world).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my 470 lecture today, I was making comment about MySpace. To point out that I wasn&#8217;t a MySpace user, I said Since I&#8217;m neither a 14 year old nor a musician, I don&#8217;t have a MySpace account. Moments later, I realized that what I should have said was Since I&#8217;m neither a 14 year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}