{"id":205,"date":"2006-08-07T20:17:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:32","slug":"blockbuster-blockheadedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/08\/blockbuster-blockheadedness","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster Blockheadedness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Excerpt from a conversation I just had at my local Blockbuster Video store:<\/p>\n

Clerk<\/strong>: “You’re not in our system. Have you rented here in the last three months?”<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> “Ummm, no, it’s probably been about six.”<\/p>\n

Clerk:<\/strong> “We’ll have to ask you to fill out an application for a new account then.”<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> “You mean you just delete accounts<\/em> if people don’t rent for three months?”<\/p>\n

Clerk:<\/strong> “Yes.”<\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> “Why would you ever do that?<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Clerk:<\/strong> “You know… to keep the database small.”<\/p>\n

Somehow I don’t think Blockbuster will have to worry about that for too much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from a conversation I just had at my local Blockbuster Video store: Clerk: “You’re not in our system. Have you rented here in the last three months?” Me: “Ummm, no, it’s probably been about six.” Clerk: “We’ll have to ask you to fill out an application for a new account then.” Me: “You mean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}