{"id":371,"date":"2021-12-31T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2021-12-31T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:30:29","slug":"something-zany-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/31\/something-zany-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Zany for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite magazines, Consumer Reports, has long had a back page feature dedicated to publicizing exaggerated claims, overreaches and silly errors in advertising. While shopping for a 1TB solid state drive today, I came across a very unfortunately named SSD on amazon.com, something that would be right at home on that page. Here it is, for your end-of-year amusement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"525\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_zQPVyiyjEmbWg7&#038;asin=B09MQ2TYVQ&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can only assume that English is not the seller&#8217;s first language, because I can&#8217;t imagine what he thinks a somnambulist is. (If English isn&#8217;t your first language, I will save you a run for your dictionary: a somnambulist is a sleepwalker.) It&#8217;s certainly not a characteristic I would want to find in a solid state drive, or a conventional hard drive, for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing everyone good health, happiness, success and plenty of good humor in 2022!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite magazines, Consumer Reports, has long had a back page feature dedicated to publicizing exaggerated claims, overreaches and silly errors in advertising. While shopping for a 1TB solid state drive today, I came across a very unfortunately named SSD on amazon.com, something that would be right at home on that page. Here &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/31\/something-zany-for-the-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Something Zany for the New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebowitzit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}