{"id":59,"date":"2006-09-06T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-08-22T01:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T07:42:42","slug":"signs-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/signs-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A block and a half from my new house is a branch of the Bank of American Fork.  There is a large sign in the front that I drive by every day, which says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bank of American Fork<br \/>\nSpanish Fork Branch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some reason, I giggle every time I see that sign.  My wife thinks I am crazy.<\/p>\n<p>I do not, however giggle at the Cingular store sign.  Rather, I get angry.  In the month I have lived in my house, I have gotten approximately eight million times as many dropped calls as I have in the whole two years previous that I have been an AT&amp;T\/Cingular customer.  The Cingular store that opened up just four blocks from the above-mentioned bank has a sign on the building that proudly proclaims &#8220;Fewest dropped calls of any network.&#8221;  I even got a flyer in the mail yesterday reminding me that there is a new Cingular store in my neighborhood and that yes, Cingular has the &#8220;fewest dropped calls of any network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to call Cingular and point out the irony, but my call was dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A block and a half from my new house is a branch of the Bank of American Fork. There is a large sign in the front that I drive by every day, which says: Bank of American Fork Spanish Fork Branch For some reason, I giggle every time I see that sign. My wife thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}