{"id":496,"date":"2004-08-31T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2004-08-31T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T00:01:44","slug":"dear_valued_customer_you_are_a_loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Dear Valued Customer, You Are a Loser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,64734,00.html\">Amit Asaravala<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the struggle between humanity and technology, humanity is clearly getting its ass kicked.<br \/>\nPublished in May with little fanfare, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsmcmeel.com\/products\/?isbn=0740738232\">the 315-page paperback<\/a> is a compilation of more than 100 true stories of technological blunder and misfortune. Some of the stories are bizarre, some are pathetic &#8212; but all are highly entertaining.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amit Asaravala: In the struggle between humanity and technology, humanity is clearly getting its ass kicked. Published in May with little fanfare, the 315-page paperback is a compilation of more than 100 true stories of technological blunder and misfortune. Some of the stories are bizarre, some are pathetic &#8212; but all are highly entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}