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Either Amazon has hit rock-bottom and is now looking for help from a higher power<\/a>, or they have an entirely inflated opinion of me (and all other Christophers to whom they sell).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Either Amazon has hit rock-bottom and is now looking for help from a higher power, or they have an entirely inflated opinion of me (and all other Christophers to whom they sell).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-2x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":195,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=195","url_meta":{"origin":157,"position":0},"title":"Amazon is sly.","date":"9\/23\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Czeltic Girl and I sometimes play a game called Gold Box Smackdown. We click through our Amazon gold box and see who gets the most ludicrous item suggested to them. This has resulted in much hilarity. The downside to this game is that in order to send the links to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ennui"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=55","url_meta":{"origin":157,"position":1},"title":"Work is the best time to blog.","date":"2\/19\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Clicking through my Amazon gold box, this option was presented to me. Curious, I found myself clicking. Now, no matter what else I click on, listed among my recommendations are all sorts of similar items. How ever will I explain this to my parole officer? Czelticgirl, however, gets items both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Found Art"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=139","url_meta":{"origin":157,"position":2},"title":"Your responsibility as a human should equal your responsibility as an American.","date":"6\/4\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"You should absorb Jello Biafra's words before you vote. When you vote, at least be informed. He'd probably be pissed that I, the web geek, recommended buying his stuff from Amazon.","rel":"","context":"In "Ennui"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":87,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=87","url_meta":{"origin":157,"position":3},"title":"Irony isn’t just a river in Egypt.","date":"3\/29\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently, acronyms are immune to standards and, indeed, organization. \"ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer of standards.\" Tsk, tsk. Clearly, they are only interested in double standards, as any web geek cringes looking at their table-laden, FrontPage code. Do what ISO says, ye quality controllers, not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Best of the Buddha"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":753,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=753","url_meta":{"origin":157,"position":4},"title":"I ain’t playin’.","date":"6\/4\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I would never complain about this, but it's very strange that lately jobs have been falling at my feet. A colleague of mine in a couple of shows now, Jackie, made mention of this at one point. She was mildly irritated and said something along the lines of \"People just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Self-service"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}