{"id":911,"date":"2006-08-22T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/911"},"modified":"2006-08-22T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:56:12","slug":"a-paper-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/911","title":{"rendered":"A Paper Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/74\/221751271_a2f5dd0ac0.jpg?v=0\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have a drawer at work devoted to chocolate.  Sometimes people give me chocolate, and in fact I was stuffing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheys.com\/products\/details\/kitkat.asp\">Kit Kat<\/a> bar into my mouth this afternoon when two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snickers.com\/\">Snickers<\/a> bars were dropped onto my desk.  Food (specifically food that will make your skin greasy and your body protest) is highly thought of at this company.  I have an entirely too-large bag of chocolate covered raisins, too.<\/p>\n<p><u><b>Conversation:<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello, this is ____, could I have a quick price on material, please?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure, let me find my notebook.  Oh my, I can&#8217;t find it.  It has disappeared under the terrifying onslaught of papers.  Papers everywhere!  At least 3 inches deep.  The fortress is being overrun, the moat has been taken, and the peasants are running in fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>(customer is cracking up)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well sir, it appears as though I&#8217;ll have to surrender.  I have no choice.  Now, what material were you looking for today?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a drawer at work devoted to chocolate. Sometimes people give me chocolate, and in fact I was stuffing a Kit Kat bar into my mouth this afternoon when two Snickers bars were dropped onto my desk. Food (specifically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}