{"id":8,"date":"2007-08-22T01:36:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T08:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/8"},"modified":"2007-08-22T02:01:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T09:01:39","slug":"necessary-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/necessary-evils\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessary Evils"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Alarm Clocks.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nI avoid using mine whenever possible.<strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Housekeeping.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/strong>Unless you&#8217;re my friend Michelle who actually ENJOYS cleaning her bathroom.\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cell phones.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Can you imagine your life without one now???<\/li>\n<li><strong>Semi-Annual Fundraising on the local\u00c2\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.org\" title=\"National Public Radio\">NPR<\/a> stations.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nBut I pay my membership every year because I&#8217;m an NPR junkie.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the best source\u00c2\u00a0for in-depth, reliable, non-partisan news.\u00c2\u00a0 And entertaining to boot.\u00c2\u00a0 I have discovered some of my favorite musical artists via NPR interviews.\u00c2\u00a0 Only radio station I listen to in the car.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bras.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nNeed I explain?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tweezers.<\/strong><br \/>\nI used to need them for eyebrows.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I need them for chin hairs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cars and airplanes.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sam, when are you going to invent a transporter beam so I can instantly de\/rematerialize wherever I want to go?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What would be on your lists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm Clocks.\u00c2\u00a0 I avoid using mine whenever possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Housekeeping.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Unless you&#8217;re my friend Michelle who actually ENJOYS cleaning her bathroom.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Cell phones. Can you imagine your life without one now??? Semi-Annual Fundraising on the local\u00c2\u00a0NPR stations.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But I pay my membership every year because I&#8217;m an NPR junkie.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the best source\u00c2\u00a0for in-depth, reliable, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/necessary-evils\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Necessary Evils<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}