{"id":3229,"date":"2010-04-14T23:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T03:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2010-04-15T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T01:44:07","slug":"stoneheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/14\/stoneheads\/","title":{"rendered":"stoneheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in the roots of Hell<br \/>\non an excruciatingly hot ember<br \/>\nis, I hope, the I.T. wiz kid<br \/>\nwho programmed<br \/>\nthe Western Union website.<br \/>\nI expect this ember will etch indelibly<br \/>\nand painfully into his ass<br \/>\nor if he is a she<br \/>\npainfully into her curvy bum<br \/>\nthe following<!--more--> observation:<br \/>\n&#8220;The consummate jerk<br \/>\nperching uncomfortably upon these words<br \/>\nis responsible for programming<br \/>\nthe Western Union website<br \/>\nto refuse transactions<br \/>\nmultiple times in despite of the fact<br \/>\nthat they have been approved by the credit card company.&#8221;<br \/>\nI am not a cruel man,<br \/>\nbut it is my fervent hope<br \/>\nthat each of the 199 characters<br \/>\nwas burned into the flesh of the above villain<br \/>\nslowly, with consummate care<br \/>\nand maximum effect.<br \/>\nI believe in the maxim that<br \/>\nan eye is worth an eye,<br \/>\nand an inconvenience such as I endured<br \/>\nis a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in the roots of Hell on an excruciatingly hot ember is, I hope, the I.T. wiz kid who programmed the Western Union website. I expect this ember will etch indelibly and painfully into his ass or if he is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/04\/14\/stoneheads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,890,3,17,416],"tags":[566,901,461,57,512,145,1000],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","category-screeds","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-big-business","tag-consumer-complaint","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-internet","tag-social-commentary","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}