{"id":326,"date":"2020-05-07T20:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2020-05-07T20:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:42:49","slug":"free-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/free-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Free elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a bad habit of accepting free stuff. Free socks\u2014they\u2019re brand new, still in the packaging. Not the color I would have bought, but they\u2019re free. It\u2019s a trap. Something\u2019s being cheap is not a reason to buy it. Something\u2019s being free is not a reason to accept it. It depends on what the something is. Try this: Free car. Free car that doesn\u2019t run. Free dirt. Free dog. Free cat. Free elephant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bad habit of accepting free stuff. Free socks\u2014they\u2019re brand new, still in the packaging. Not the color I would have bought, but they\u2019re free. It\u2019s a trap. Something\u2019s being cheap is not a reason to buy it. Something\u2019s being free is not a reason to accept it. It depends on what the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/free-elephant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free elephant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}