{"id":2650,"date":"2009-07-14T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2009-07-14T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:15:49","slug":"ysac-vol-362-bonus-points-for-an-alexandrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"YSaC, Vol. 362: Bonus points for an alexandrine."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>free bike<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>free bike it wokes nice<br \/>\ngiving out to any1<br \/>\ncant ride no more<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is, disappointingly, one syllable (and one profound meaning) short of a haiku.<\/p>\n<p>I think more people should write their Craigslist ads in poetic meters. Imagine reading ads in iambic tetrameter:<\/p>\n<p>The dainty water fountain and<br \/>\nThe graceful neck of swans aloft<br \/>\nConceal the greater truth since it&#8217;s<br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=2407\">lamp with dolphins<\/a>, damn it all.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of the rare dolphin-swan lamp-fountain, Althea sent me an email pointing out that the &#8220;swan fountain&#8221; had been recently relisted with the exact same text (and same price). Obviously they would have had more success selling it if they used my quatrain above.<\/p>\n<p>Bike post sent in by atomic cate &#8212; thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>free bike free bike it wokes nice giving out to any1 cant ride no more This is, disappointingly, one syllable (and one profound meaning) short of a haiku. I think more people should write their Craigslist ads in poetic meters. Imagine reading ads in iambic tetrameter: The dainty water fountain and The graceful neck of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16],"tags":[7,12,42],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free","category-furniture","tag-speeling-prolbems","tag-update","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}