{"id":1415,"date":"2008-05-22T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2008-05-22T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:25:14","slug":"the_vagaries_of_junk_mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/22\/the_vagaries_of_junk_mail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vagaries of Junk Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my pre-online days, I bought a lot of books via good old-fashioned mail-order catalogs, and even though this habit ended long ago, I still get quite a few book-related mailings in my daily allotment of recycling fodder. Sometimes this can lead to situations that I find perversely amusing. Yesterday, for example, I received a flyer advertising a new biography of the late president of the LDS Church, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_B._Hinckley\">Gordon B. Hinckley<\/a>. This on the same day that I also received a fat, full-color catalog from <a href=\"http:\/\/budsartbooks.com\/\">a company<\/a> that specializes in, among other things, volumes of pin-up art and nude photography.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine what my poor mail carrier must think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my pre-online days, I bought a lot of books via good old-fashioned mail-order catalogs, and even though this habit ended long ago, I still get quite a few book-related mailings in my daily allotment of recycling fodder. Sometimes this can lead to situations that I find perversely amusing. Yesterday, for example, I received [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}