{"id":26301,"date":"2020-05-28T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26301"},"modified":"2020-05-26T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T22:01:27","slug":"sometimes-you-have-to-pay-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/28\/sometimes-you-have-to-pay-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Have To Pay For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really.  But my youngest was bored and came into my office whilst I was trying to work (and not just write twee things for this blog, gentle reader), so I told him to shred the papers that my beautiful wife had brought in for document destruction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you have to pay sometimes?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cctoshred.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The shredder has a little slot where you can put your old credit cards in for destruction, but I don&#8217;t tend to use it as I prefer to grind my old credit cards exceedingly fine.<\/p>\n<p>But the lad had only seen that sort of iconography on places where you use a credit card to pay for things.<\/p>\n<p>And in this world of interconnectedness of things and pay-as-you-go models, perhaps it would not be at all surprising to have to pay extra to use something you&#8217;ve already bought.  As a matter of fact, in this third decade of the millennium, that&#8217;s the normal for technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really. But my youngest was bored and came into my office whilst I was trying to work (and not just write twee things for this blog, gentle reader), so I told him to shred the papers that my beautiful wife had brought in for document destruction. &#8220;Do you have to pay sometimes?&#8221; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26302,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26301\/revisions\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}